1. Were the 1930s and 1940s a step forward or a step back for the black race in America? You need a textbook.

2. Were they a step forward or a step back?

3. Were the 1930s a step forward or step back for the black race in America? What do you base this prediction on? Research Activity  Five groups/one per section of Chapter 18.  Post it notes: Identify events, statistics, trends, laws, etc. that help identify the status of blacks in the 1930s.  Stick each note on the step forward or step back board and be prepared to discuss it.

4. Steps Forward  FDR’s black cabinet  The New Deal and 2 nd New Deal  Negro Women’s Franchise League  Agricultural Adjustment Act  Women in NAACP  NAACP ties to labor movement  Vaccinations for black students  National Negro Congress  International Labor Defense  Terrell Law Case victory  Joint Committee on National Recovery  Mitchell anti-lynching speech Steps Back  Scottsboro boys case (rape)  Black income between 40- 80% less than whites  50% of black workers unemployed in major northern cities  Racist policies of President Hoover  Terrell Law  Tuskegee Study – blacks given a placebo drug for syphilis. Many died.  African Americans had a harder time getting older  Lower pay and longer hours than black workers.

5.  Thesis Statement?  Main arguments?  Supporting evidence?  What did black lose in the 1930s that they had gained in the 1920s?

6. Were the 1940s a step forward or step back for the black race in America? What do you base this prediction on? Research Activity  Five groups/one per section of Chapter 18.  Post it notes: Identify events, statistics, trends, laws, etc. that help identify the status of blacks in the 1940s.  Stick each note on the step forward or step back board and be prepared to discuss it.