AFROAM 236 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole, Halle Berry

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Afro-American Studies
• Course: AFROAM 236
• Professor: Traci Parker

Document Summary

50% of blacks unemployed white men argued no black man should be employed until all whites were employed women would stand at corner and. Herbert hover was president bailed out the big banks thinking it would trickle down. Fdr wins by landslide and serves 3 terms. He was not care for civil rights movements. His new deal plans did not protect blacks. Hunger strikes and try to protect blacks from being evicted. Cio-1935 b/c of cio new deal for blacks is helped come into effect. Approves the cartel for the brotherhood of car porters in 1936. Can not get ahead w/o each other (black & whites) Over 200,000 members are apart of cio (1940) Naacp jumped on board and other civil rights organizations. Late 1930s into 1940s labor orientated civil rights movement. Turns right back to the works and allow. This helps white and black and white workers to organize as one.