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Additional Sources:
Debating the Past- Where Historians Disagree: Causes of the Great Depression
WPA: The African-American Mosaic www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam012.html
The New Deal for African Americans http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/reflector/historicald.html
The New Deal and the Negro: A look at Facts
Will the New Deal be a Square Deal for the Negro?
New Deal Network
Great Myths of the Great Depression
Women and the Great Depression
Eyewitness to History: The Great Depression
Library of Congress: Race Relations in the 1930s and 1940s
Utah's Paiute Indians during the Great Depression
John Collier-Native Americans and the Great Depression
Onda Latina: Mexican Americans During the Great Depression-audio program
Digital History: Mexican Repatriation during the Great Depression
PREPARE AND SUBMIT:
Write a well-organized essay, a minimum of 700 words (but not limited to), including supporting details from the documents/textbook/other sources, in which you analyze and discuss the material that has been assigned by addressing the following question:
Analyze and discuss how women, blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans, were impacted by the Depression and New Deal. As part of your analysis and discussion, you must address the long-term legacies of the New Deal and major historical assessments that have been made of it, and if you agree or disagree with these assessments.