How did the great depression impact life on african americans

It spurred the rise of African-American activism, which laid the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

African-American unemployment rates doubled or tripled those of whites.

African Americans formed grassroots organizations, uniting for economic and political progress.

The African-American vote help elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, for the first time switching to the Democratic Party.

New Deal programs, however, still discriminated against African Americans.