Light in August | Compare and Contrast
- 1930s: After a decade of buying on credit, Americans find themselves in the grips of a severe economic depression. African Americans are hardest hit by the Depression, which leaves half of their population out of work.
Today: Economic policies, such as unemployment compensation, are designed in part to prevent the country from falling into a severe depression that would yield the kind of national devastation Americans experienced in the 1930s.
- 1930s: Racial violence increases in the South during the Depression (1929–1940). For example,...
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