What was the state of race relations during 1935?

The problems of the Great Depression affected

virtually every group of Americans. No group

was harder hit than African Americans,

however. By 1932, approximately half of black

Americans were out of work. In some Northem

cities, whites called for blacks to be fired from

any jobs as long as there were whites out of

work. Racial violence again became more

common, especially in the South. Lynchings,

which had declied to eight in 1932, surged to

28 in 1933