Robert Clifton Weaver: “The New Deal and the Negro: A Look at the Facts”

Essential Quotes

“The present economic position of the colored citizen was not created by recent legislation alone. Rather, it is the result of the impact of a new program upon an economic and social situation.”

“Although it is regrettable that the economic depression has led to the unemployment of so many Negroes and has threatened the creation of a large segment of the Negro population as a chronic relief load, one is forced to admit that Federal relief has been a godsend to the unemployed.”

“We can admit that we have gained from the relief program and still fight to receive greater and more equitable benefits from it.”

“In the execution of some phases of the Recovery Program, there have been difficulties, and the maximum results have not been received by the Negroes. But, given the economic situation of 1932, the New Deal has been more helpful than harmful to Negroes.”