African Americans and The New Deal - Positives

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  1. 3. The new head of the PWA promised to grant how much money (in millions) to help build AA schools, hospitals and homes?
  2. 5. 200,000 AAs were involved in which New Deal initiative?
  3. 9. Many employers in the South evaded the provisions of which ND initiative?
  4. 10. FDR never banned the poll tax in the South because he feared he would upset whom?
  5. 12. The passing of what act was actually against AAs because they were often casual workers and not members of a union?
  6. 13. The writers' project which helped to form the slave narrative collection was sent out by which government agency?
  7. 14. How many people (in millions) was involved in the WPA by 1939?
  8. 19. How many lynching incidents were there in 1934?
  9. 21. The Social Security Act made no provisions for what type of workers?
  10. 22. The WPA and what other alphabet agency aimed to direct 10% especially for AAs?
  11. 24. CCC and AAA work camps were what?
  12. 25. AAs were actually displaced by what New Deal initiative and were forced to travel to towns to work at a time when jobs were scarce?
Down
  1. 1. Which trade union was open to AAs?
  2. 2. What percentage of those involved in the CCC were black?
  3. 3. How many AAs worked in federal executive departments and New Deal agencies?
  4. 4. Who continued to suffer as farms went out of production?
  5. 5. Some AAs served as members of the 'black ______' to the President?
  6. 6. The WPA was known for being what
  7. 7. This person, with African American heritage, became head of the PWA?
  8. 8. Who served as the director of Negro Affairs in the NYA?
  9. 11. How many years lower were AAs' life expectancy compared to whites?
  10. 15. What sort of training did the NYA provide?
  11. 16. FDR refused to support legislation to make what a federal offence?
  12. 17. Which writers' project sent out an all black unit of writers to interview ex-slaves which memorialised AA history?
  13. 18. Over 1/4 of AAs were given what help via federal aid projects?
  14. 20. Which AA civil rights group grew in membership during this era?
  15. 21. Which organisation refused to give mortgages for AAs who lived in traditionally white neighbourhoods?
  16. 23. Which alphabet agency did not cover those working in agriculture and domestic services?
  17. 24. Many AAs benefited from housing projects and clearances of where?