Date of Award

Spring 1979

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

Committee Director

Dorothy E. Johnson

Committee Member

D. Alan Harris

Committee Member

Peter C. Stewart

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.H47F44

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the experience of blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, during the Depression decade of the 1930's. It emphasizes the problems blacks faced in an era of rising unemployment and entrenched segregation. The study uses a variety of tables to show comparatively high rates of' disease, joblessness, and crime along with related discrimination in pay and in the distribution of public and private funds for humanitarian purposes.

Using a wide variety of primary sources, including personal interviews, the study examines a variety of subjects. In addition to portraying the plight of the black population, the thesis discusses the role of religion in the black community, the response to Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. and the individual achievements of blacks in Norfolk.

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DOI

10.25777/gmq9-rg79

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