African Americans In The 1930's

During the 1930’s the U.S. faced a period of racial discrimination. No group was harder hit than African Americans. African Americans were loathed and received consequences because the color of their skin. In some Northern cities, whites demanded for blacks to be fired from their jobs since there were white people that didn’t have jobs. The census created new sections that enforced a white supremacist fixation with racial purity. Racial violence again became more common, especially in the South. Lynchings, which had worsened in 1932 and flourished in 1933. Innocent men were incarcerated and murdered for petty crimes and things they weren’t guilty of.
Many African Americans ponder on why they were hated due to their skin color. At this time there were many ways that racism affected the U.S. negatively. Segregation was set in place to keep whites superior to blacks. Often African Americans were beaten, lynched and arrested for attempting liberation. Very few whites disagreed with racism, the way blacks were treated. Of the few who disagreed with racism a smaller amount acted. Many whites felt that racism was wrong. Whites wrote books helped hide innocent

The Black Holocaust Article states that “African Americans attack the U.S. Communist Party because of its carelessness of black perception to unconcerned economic categories.” Though they acknowledge that blacks in the 1930s made valiant attempts to organize workers and fight discrimination which, improved the circumstances for thousands of black families for a while, white racist leaders manipulated and established theoretical dominance over blacks. Even though things were getting better, things got much worse. Lynchings became common and children were murdered for minor actions such as looking at women or touching white women in non-sexual