How the New Deal Left Out African-Americans

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How the New Deal Left Out African-Americans

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During the Great Depression, unemployment among African-Americans was twice that of whites - mostly due to segregation. One rare opportunity came on the Pullman sleeper trains, where most of the porters were black. From the Series: America in Color: The 1930s http://bit.ly/2hwYyUR

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