Saturday, May 3, 2014

Rural America


In this blog post, I will be talking about Rural America during the Great Depression.  More importantly, I will be talking about The New Deal and how Black Farmers were impacted by the Great Depression during this period.

First of all, What was the New Deal?

The New Deal was a series of acts that were put in place between 1933 and 1936. It was to attempt to relieve the pain of the Great Depression.


Black Farmers were hit the hardest during the Great Depression because they were a minority. Many minority groups were hit extremely hard during this period. I think because they were a minority and the fact that they were farmers, had a lot to do with why they were so hit hard during the depression.

Farmers themselves hadn't been doing well since World War I and it was just spiral downhill from there that they continued to go down. People weren't buying and things weren't selling. People just didn't want to do business with them at all and the New Deal did nothing to relieve their struggles and in fact only served to throw them more under the bus.

It's not until after the Great Depression that they slowly start to rise back up.

I do believe that their heritage had a lot to do with why people didn't want to do business with them but I also believe that industrialization during this time had a lot to do with it as well. People no longer were looking to be farmers, they were moving to larger cities and suburbia began to take place in America during this time. There were just a lot of factors that took place in the fall of farming during this period.



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