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The New Deal and the Negro: A Look at the Facts

Classification: Labor
Publication: Opportunity, Journal of Negro Life
Date: July, 1935
Author: Weaver, Robert C.
Type: Article

Publisher: National Urban League

It is impossible to discuss intelligently the New Deal and the Negro without considering the status of the Negro prior to the advent of the Recovery Program. The present economic position of the colored citizen was not created by recent legislation alone.

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Notes: Vol. 13, No. 7, p. 200
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