American Decades
"Will the New Deal Be a Square Deal for the Negro?"
Journal article
By: Jesse O. Thomas
Date: October 1933
Source: Thomas, Jesse O. "Will the New Deal Be a Square Deal for the Negro?" Opportunity, Journal of Negro Life 11, no. 10, October, 1933, 308. Available online at http://newdeal.feri.org/opp/opp33308.htm; website home page: http://newdeal.feri.org (accessed August 29, 2002).
About the Author: Jesse O. Thomas (1883–1972) was an educator and social worker who helped create and administer educational, health management, and job-related programs aimed at improving the quality of life for African Americans. A graduate of Tuskegee Institute, Thomas spent most of his career with the Urban League and later the American Red Cross. He also served in a variety of special roles including as a member of the Mississippi Flood Relief...
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1930's Lifestyles and Social Trends Primary Sources
- Statement of Mrs. Margaret Sanger
- Statement of Miss Helen Hall, University Settlement, Philadelphia, Pa.
- "Will the New Deal Be a Square Deal for the Negro?"
- Lorena Hickok to Harry L. Hopkins
- "Subsistence Farmsteads"
- Harriet Craft and John Craft to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Boy and Girl Tramps of America
- Flash Gordon, Episode 2
- Employed Women Under N.R.A. Codes
- "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch"
- Cultural and Social Aspects of the New York World's Fair, 1939
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Saga of the CCC
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
