Main content

Did unemployment divide whites and blacks in 1930s America?
A look at the impact of the Depression on discrimination and race relations, and the divide in America due to poverty and hardship. According to Walter Coachman, this suffering was not always divisive. He states that he sees white people in the same predicament as black people.
Duration:
This clip is from
More clips from American Voices: A History of America 1917-1941
-
Depression photographs of migrant farmers
Duration: 02:02
-
Racism in Southern America in the early 20th century
Duration: 04:13
-
What went wrong in 1920s America?
Duration: 04:56
-
The Wall Street Crash
Duration: 03:16
More clips from History
-
Surgery of the future—Medicine through Time
Duration: 04:23
-
Government attitudes to healthcare—Medicine through Time
Duration: 01:04
-
The Hitler Youth and indoctrination of the young—Nazi Germany
Duration: 04:53