History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1550 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Negro Run Around
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The idea
The anchor records overt discrimination in hiring across New Deal programmes, and critics called the National Recovery Administration the Negro Run Around, or Negroes Ruined Again.
In practice
Separate and lower pay scales for Black workers written into industry codes, as Digital History describes.
Where people slip
The Conservation Corps, Digital History adds, kept segregated camps.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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