HIST 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Canadian Labour Congress, Unemployed Councils
19 Oct 2018
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The naacp leader walter white said that african. American women who joined the communist party in 1931 were ignorant. A new group of female activists emerged from the. Women saw the communist party as a way of achieving black liberation and gender and working class advancement. American women in the communist party, saying that they were invisible. Aa women joined the cp during the great. The socioeconomic problems created by the economic collapse pushed women towards leftist reforms. Even before the depression, aa were plagued with high rates of poverty, poor living conditions, low wages, race, gender and class discrimination. With the implementation of the new deal many aa hoped for increased employment, equal treatment and social progress. Many civil servants discriminated against aa after the implementation of the new deal. Aa women were attracted to the cp because it fought to alter the conditions of the working class and the poor and it wanted to fight against discrimination.
