Race Relations In The 1930's

Have race relations in the United States today improved since the 1930’s? Is it better, worse, or the same?

Nowadays it doesn’t seem right to mistreat someone and kill them for who they are and the color of their skin. Race relations have changed a lot since the 1930’s to now. African Americans have a lot more respect than they used to. There are still always racism issues throughout the world, but that is just society. In the 1930’s, blacks were hung, mistreated, and weren’t respected at all. They could never find jobs and were always accused of something they could’ve done or even if they didn’t do it. They were used as slaves for such a long time just for the difference in their skin tone. Today, they are respected much better than they

used to be.
The 1930’s were hard times for everyone.

This was the time of the Great Depression and not many people had jobs. People were hit hard with money issues. They hardest group hit was probably the African Americans. Jobs were already short and very hard to find, but for the blacks, nobody would give them a job due to race or color of their skin. Everyone gave them a hard time and didn’t think it was worth it for them to gain money from a job. They were denied jobs with the Works Project Administration because they were not allowed the same pay as whites. People now have jobs everywhere and everyone has a chance at a job they want. Although, some blacks did get jobs and the whites started to get angry. They formed anti-black organizations or groups like the KKK (Klu Klux Klan). They also started lynch mobs. These mobs went through towns and attacked families, homes, and sometimes whole communities. They would go around and hang the blacks out on the streets. Around the time in March, nine African American boys are accused of raping two white woman. The boys tell everyone this isn’t true and this never happened, but the two girls told the police that a group of men raped them. When the police asked who raped them the girls could never say who it was because they never got to see the men. They nine boys were put into jail in a town called Scottsboro. They news soon reached national attention and became a huge issue towards race relations. The North started coming down into the

South and having petitions for the boys to be out of jail. Soon, two of the nine boys were convicted and given a death sentence.
There are still problems along our society for whites and blacks, but that is just how it is. I do believe that the race relations have gotten better since the 1930’s. People are treated equally. Everyone can work together, go to school together, do activities together without a sign infront of every store separating people because of their skin tone. Back then, we couldn’t go to school together and couldn’t go to the same movie theatre or church. There were mobs and killing among the blacks and whites because nobody got along. Today there isn’t any of that going on anymore. People of every race can live happy and freely.
Some people may argue that our country has gotten worse or isn’t any better or is just the same in race relations.

There are news reports of cops killing blacks and race relations staying the same between people. I do not believe it is anywhere close to the same as it was back in the 1930’s. Our country has come so far from our history with race relations. We don’t go around and kill blacks just because and there aren’t any big mobs that go around and kill like the Klu Klux Klan or the lynch mobs. Our race relations aren’t perfect, but they have come a long way and have gotten much better. We even just had an African American as out president, Barack Obama was our president and was liked by a lot of people. This shows another big step America has come to. In 1930’s, nobody would ever think something like that would happen then.

Our country and other countries have all come far with racism and race relations. We can all live freely and not worry about mobs killing people for their color. We can all use the same stores without being seperated, killed, or sent to jail. Everyone has the ability to have the job they want if they work for it. Nobody is thought differently because they want a certain job and they are a different race from everybody else. Race relations have changed so much and gotten a lot better than they used to

be.