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Poetry by Langston Hughes
Poems by African Americans during the Great Depression provides an emotion expression of the experiences felt by many lower and middle class blacks during this time. Langston Hughes captured the trials and tribulations felt by the African American race, mostly within the Harlem Renaissance. A few examples of poetry that reflected the Great Depression are:
"Puzzled" touches on the sadness, confusion, and hopelessness of the economy during the depression.
"Madam's Past History" speaks of a woman's success before the Great Depression. Due to these successes, the WPA won't allow her to work for them because she is overqualified.
"The Ballad of the Landlord" describes the frustrations and injustice felt by African Americans.
"Come to the Waldorf-Astoria!" defines the feelings felt by citizens dealing with poverty as the luxurious Waldorf-Astoria was opening.
Hughes, Langston. Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. New York: Vintage, 1990. Print.
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Langston-Hughes-Vintage-Classics/dp/0679764089/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386176429&sr=8-1&keywords=a+collection+of+poems+by+langston+hughes
Poems by African Americans during the Great Depression provides an emotion expression of the experiences felt by many lower and middle class blacks during this time. Langston Hughes captured the trials and tribulations felt by the African American race, mostly within the Harlem Renaissance. A few examples of poetry that reflected the Great Depression are:
"Puzzled" touches on the sadness, confusion, and hopelessness of the economy during the depression.
"Madam's Past History" speaks of a woman's success before the Great Depression. Due to these successes, the WPA won't allow her to work for them because she is overqualified.
"The Ballad of the Landlord" describes the frustrations and injustice felt by African Americans.
"Come to the Waldorf-Astoria!" defines the feelings felt by citizens dealing with poverty as the luxurious Waldorf-Astoria was opening.
Hughes, Langston. Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. New York: Vintage, 1990. Print.
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Langston-Hughes-Vintage-Classics/dp/0679764089/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386176429&sr=8-1&keywords=a+collection+of+poems+by+langston+hughes
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"Black Culture and the New Deal" by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff
In Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff's book, she examines the New Deal programs and how they related to African Americans. Through these programs, black men and women were given access to new and unique employment opportunities and new avenues in which to express their political opinions.
Sklaroff, Lauren Rebecca. Black Culture And The New Deal [Electronic Book] : The Quest For Civil Rights In The Roosevelt Era /
Lauren
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Culture-New-Deal-Roosevelt/dp/0807833126/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386176229&sr=8-1&keywords=Black+Culture+and+the+New+Deal
In Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff's book, she examines the New Deal programs and how they related to African Americans. Through these programs, black men and women were given access to new and unique employment opportunities and new avenues in which to express their political opinions.
Sklaroff, Lauren Rebecca. Black Culture And The New Deal [Electronic Book] : The Quest For Civil Rights In The Roosevelt Era /
Lauren
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Culture-New-Deal-Roosevelt/dp/0807833126/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386176229&sr=8-1&keywords=Black+Culture+and+the+New+Deal
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"To Ask for an Equal Chance" by Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
"Concise, engaging, deeply grounded in the scholarly literature, and fully accessible to a general readership, "To Ask for an Equal Chance" provides a compelling account of the economic hardship and racial discrimination that defined the experience of African Americans in the Great Depression. Cheryl Greenberg shows persuasively both the transforming impact and the fundamental limitations of the New Deal's record on race, and she argues provocatively that subsequent civil rights protest was fueled in part by the community action, political organizing, and expansion of economic and educational opportunities among blacks in the 1930s."
Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn. To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans in the Great Depression. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. Print.
http://www.amazon.com/Ask-Equal-Chance-Americans-Depression/dp/074255189X
"Concise, engaging, deeply grounded in the scholarly literature, and fully accessible to a general readership, "To Ask for an Equal Chance" provides a compelling account of the economic hardship and racial discrimination that defined the experience of African Americans in the Great Depression. Cheryl Greenberg shows persuasively both the transforming impact and the fundamental limitations of the New Deal's record on race, and she argues provocatively that subsequent civil rights protest was fueled in part by the community action, political organizing, and expansion of economic and educational opportunities among blacks in the 1930s."
Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn. To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans in the Great Depression. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. Print.
http://www.amazon.com/Ask-Equal-Chance-Americans-Depression/dp/074255189X
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"A New Deal for Black: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue: The Depression Decade" by Harvard Sitkoff
As Americans were struggling through a time in U.S. history now known as The Great Depression, awareness of inequalities and injustices by African Americans were being realized. In Harvard Sitkoff's book, he provides a comprehensive account of the events that led to the national issue of civil rights.
Sitkoff, Harvard. A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue : The Depression Decade. New York:
Oxford UP, 2009. Print.
http://www.amazon.com/New-Deal-Blacks-Emergence-Depression/dp/B0091K2P80/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1386176066&sr=8-2&keywords=a+new+deal+for+blacks
As Americans were struggling through a time in U.S. history now known as The Great Depression, awareness of inequalities and injustices by African Americans were being realized. In Harvard Sitkoff's book, he provides a comprehensive account of the events that led to the national issue of civil rights.
Sitkoff, Harvard. A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue : The Depression Decade. New York:
Oxford UP, 2009. Print.
http://www.amazon.com/New-Deal-Blacks-Emergence-Depression/dp/B0091K2P80/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1386176066&sr=8-2&keywords=a+new+deal+for+blacks
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