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No end to discrimination
John Vachon
Although there was improvement in racial equality over all, there was still no end to segregation or discrimination, especially in the city. Atlanta for instance, was one of the most know areas in the nation when it came to racial disturbances. This is partly due to the elites desire to keep the economic system at the status quo and electing Eugene Talmadge as Governor. Talmadge was well liked by those who were benefiting from an economic system which took advantage of blacks and other minorities by paying them low wages. This was the way it had always been done. The New Deal in opposition was designed to help the very people the elites wanted to keep down and was seen as a threat to their lifestyle. In response, they elected Talmadge who drove hard against accepting the New Deal Programs which eventually became as powerful as the state government. In response, local officials in charge of relief often found excuses to give blacks less in the way of relief. A few years later, an excuse was found to clear a large African American neighborhood in order to push blacks toward and contain them within a certain area in the city. The excuse used was that the neighborhood was a slum and unattractive, especially as close as it was to the upscale shopping area downtown. After the the slums were removed though, nice apartments were built for the elite whites. These as well as the fear and panic about the unstable economy and the lack of jobs in the city all contributed to further segregation and discrimination in the city of Atlanta, and certainly in other cities.
Ferguson, Karen. Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Chapel Hill and London, 2002.
No end to discrimination
John Vachon
Although there was improvement in racial equality over all, there was still no end to segregation or discrimination, especially in the city. Atlanta for instance, was one of the most know areas in the nation when it came to racial disturbances. This is partly due to the elites desire to keep the economic system at the status quo and electing Eugene Talmadge as Governor. Talmadge was well liked by those who were benefiting from an economic system which took advantage of blacks and other minorities by paying them low wages. This was the way it had always been done. The New Deal in opposition was designed to help the very people the elites wanted to keep down and was seen as a threat to their lifestyle. In response, they elected Talmadge who drove hard against accepting the New Deal Programs which eventually became as powerful as the state government. In response, local officials in charge of relief often found excuses to give blacks less in the way of relief. A few years later, an excuse was found to clear a large African American neighborhood in order to push blacks toward and contain them within a certain area in the city. The excuse used was that the neighborhood was a slum and unattractive, especially as close as it was to the upscale shopping area downtown. After the the slums were removed though, nice apartments were built for the elite whites. These as well as the fear and panic about the unstable economy and the lack of jobs in the city all contributed to further segregation and discrimination in the city of Atlanta, and certainly in other cities.
Ferguson, Karen. Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Chapel Hill and London, 2002.