Black Americans were hard hit by the gloom times of the depression years of the mid 1870s because a. many had put their money in the Freedman's Savings and Trust, only to see it vanish due to bad investments.
b. companies tended to fire them first and hold on to white workers.
c. mobs of unemployed workers took out their frustrations through violence against blacks.
d. they lost what little land they owned to speculation schemes.
e. None of these