Employment training was provided by National Youth Administration, which was advised by influential African American reformer, Mary McLeod Bethune.
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Farm Security Administrators gave help to Southern AAs who were hit particularly hard by drop in food and raw material prices after 1929.
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Roosevelt spoke out against lynchings, though no law was passed against them. There also also some appointments of AAs to New Deal offices
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Defenders of ND's contribution to better race relations point to more of change in atmosphere towards civil rights than very dramatic civil rights legislation.
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Eleanor Roosevelt supported African American organisations and openly disapproved of segregation.
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NAACP membership grew in late 1930s
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Many poor sharecroppers could not pay rents. Little was done for 200,000 who were evicted.
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When federal programmes reduced crop production and paid farmers for not producing crops to maintain prices with reduced supply, there was often no money paid directly to poorer AA tenants
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AAs suffered disproportionately from unemployment
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Attempts to improve working conditions excluded groups where AA labour was most common - agricultural and domestic service.
