Civil Rights and the Black Experience During the New Deal Era: Limitations and Possibilities 1932–1948

Authors

Garth Sutherland, Bard College

Degree

Master of Arts in Teaching in History

Files

Publication Date

Spring 2020

Table of Contents

I. Synthesis Essay………………………………3

II. Primary Documents and Headnotes……….27

III. Textbook Critique……………………………39

IV. New Textbook Entry…………………………47

V. Bibliography…………………………………..53

Keywords

secondary education social studies, historiography, New Deal

Disciplines

African American Studies | Curriculum and Instruction | Other American Studies | Secondary Education | Social History | United States History

Comments

Updated Links to Primary Documents:

All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (Excerpt): https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinnselhel15.html

You Cannot Kill the Working Class (Excerpt): https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/pamphlets/You-Cannot-Kill-the-Working-Class-herndon.pdf

Article from The Crisis (1935): https://books.google.com/books?id=CFgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA293&dq=John+P.+Davis,+%E2%80%9CThe+Plight+of+the+Negro,%E2%80%9D+The+Crisis,+October+1935&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj_zrvTi8PnAhVLlXIEHeIHBWAQ6AEwAXoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=John%20P.%20Davis%2C%20%E2%80%9CThe%20Plight%20of%20the%20Negro%2C%E2%80%9D%20The%20Crisis%2C%20October%201935&f=false

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “Address at Barnesville” (1938): https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-barnesville-georgia

Marian Anderson performance on the steps of the Lincoln memorial on Easter Sunday 1939: https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2014/04/the-sound-of-freedom-marian-anderson-at-the-lincoln-memorial/

Oral History Interview with Ella Baker, April 19, 1977: https://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/html_use/G-0008.html

“A. Phillip Randolph Calls for a March on Washington”: https://wwnorton.com/college/history/archive/resources/documents/ch30_02.htm

(Poster) Pvt. Joe Louis says: https://digital.library.unt.edu

Recommended Citation

Sutherland, Garth, "Civil Rights and the Black Experience During the New Deal Era: Limitations and Possibilities 1932–1948" (2020). History - Master of Arts in Teaching. 10.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/history_mat/10