Thursday, 26 October 2017

What joke did African Americans make about the New Deal's National Recovery Act? Explain.

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answer is absolutely correct in saying that the National Recovery Administration, as well as
many other New Deal programs was not fair to African Americans.  As she says, they were
discriminated against quite badly.  This happened largely because it was whites who had
political power and therefore it was whites that Roosevelt had to please.

In
general, the NRA money was given to states to administer.  Therefore, it's not surprising the
white leaders of the South administered it in ways that were not helpful to blacks.


Some jokes were made using the initials "NRA."  I don't know how often the N
was used to mean "negro" and how often it was used as "ni***r" when these
jokes were made.

So, it was known as the Negro Run Around, Negro Removal Act
and Negroes Robbed Again.  I hope at least one of those is what you were supposed to
know...

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