How did New Deal programs, such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Public Works Administration (PWA), support African Americans during the Depression?
These agencies constructed integrated housing complexes and hired a higher-than-average percentage of
African American workers.
These agencies were responsible for the passage of antilynching laws and worked to help African Americans
in the South regain long-denied voting rights.
These agencies employed many displaced African American sharecroppers and tenant farmers and worked
closely with Congress to pass legislation preventing landowners from evicting them from the farms they
rented.
These agencies developed educational reading programs to reduce African American illiteracy.