The Great Depression hit Americans hard, but none harder than
African Americans and the working poor. To Ask for an Equal Chance
explores black experiences during this period and the intertwined
challenges posed by race and class. "Last hired, first fired,"
black workers lost their jobs at twice the rate of whites, and
faced greater obstacles in their search for economic security.
Black workers, who were generally urban newcomers, impoverished and
lacking industrial skills, were already at a disadvantage. These
difficulties were intensified by an overt, and in the South legally
entrenched, system of racial segregation and discrimination. New
federal programs offered hope as they redefined government's
responsibility for its citizens, but local implementation often
proved racially discriminatory. As Cheryl Lynn Greenberg makes
clear, African Americans were not passive victims of economic
catastrophe or white racism; they responded to such challenges in a
variety of political, social, and communal ways. The book explores
both the external realities facing African Americans and individual
and communal responses to them. While experiences varied depending
on many factors including class, location, gender and community
size, there are also unifying and overarching realities that
applied universally. To Ask for an Equal Chance straddles the
particular, with examinations of specific communities and
experiences, and the general, with explorations of the broader
effects of racism, discrimination, family, class, and political
organizing.
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