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HISTORICAL ANALYSIS PAPER

OCTOBER 2, 2014
Abstract

The New Deal was a series of domestic programs geared to help the unemployed, the

poor, and African American citizens during President D Roosevelt’s tenure. The New

Deal was described by many as the relief, recovery, and reform act. The New Deal

prevented many Americans from going hungry doing the great depression. While some

say that the New Deal was the stepping stone for reform in America, many African

Americans, could argue against this. The New Deal in its early formation did nothing to

impact the racial barriers in the African American community however as it developed it

did share light on the racial tensions that African Americans suffered during this era. It

not only showed that the racial tension existed it showed that they existed on a higher

level than just a county level. That it was now an issue bigger than county it was now an

as a global issue.

The New Deal prevented most citizens in America during the Great Depression

from starving…“It reformed national institutional structures to meet the massive needs

of millions of Americans in poverty (Marx, J.D., Broussard, C.A., Hopper, F.A., &

Worster, D. 2010. Social Work and Social Welfare: An Introduction).” Although the

New Deal met the needs of several Americans, it had little impact on the African-

American community. It did not bring to an end the tremendous injustices that African

Americans had to suffer from on a day-to-day basis. It had many discriminatory

connotations attached to it. The New Deal did nothing directly to help African

Americans. Many African Americans still worked low end jobs, jobs such as domestic

servants, migrant workers, and farmers. The New Deal offered no ant-lynching

legislation, So therefore African Americans and other minorities were the ones that

suffered the most during the Great Depression. Even though Then New Deal had its

weakness and did not really bring to an end the daily injustices that African Americans

had to face from day to day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s wife Eleanor Roosevelt ,

was first to discover these injustices that the African American community

faced under the New Deal. Lady Roosevelt was one of the first to advocate for African

Americans, during the New Deal. This for the first time in history gave African

Americans that feeling that they could finally communicate their grievances to their

government with… “The expectancy of sympathetic understanding interpretation (Marx,

J.D., Broussard, C.A., Hopper, F.A & Worster, D. 2010. Social work and social welfare:

An introduction).” During this time that the silent invisible hand of racism was finally

exposed as a national issue instead of that of a community, town, or city. This was letting

the light shine so that everyone would know that racism was not just a county issue but

was a national issue. That it was time to stop pretending that it did not exist but to expose

the problem and formulate some type of solution for this race of people. This in turn

gave African Americans a sense of hope, a sense of pride, and showed them that both the

President and First Lady cared about them. This was the first glimpse to African

Americans of “The Potential power of the Federal Government in regards to Civil Rights

(Marx, J.D., Broussard, C.A., F.A., & Worster, D. 2010. Social Work and Social

Welfare: An Introduction).” This shift of attitude in African Americans during the New

Deal help propel the issue of race relations onto a national stage/platform.

The social work values that relate to the policy solution to me is that which says

that you should not discriminate against a person not matter what his religion, race,

disability, or sexual origin is. You are to enhance human well-being and help meet

the basic human needs of all people, with particular attention to the needs and

empowerment of people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty.
References

Marx, J.D., Broussad, C.A., Hopper, F.A & Worster, D. (2010). Social Welfare:

An introduction. Boston, MA: Pearson

www.naswcodeofethics