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

Glossary

• American Federation of Labor an umbrella organization for a number of labor unions
• crop reduction program a federal program that paid farmers not to raise crops as a way of boosting crop prices by decreasing supply
• F.E.R.A. the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, a New Deal government agency whose goal was to provide relief to unemployed workers and their families
• New Deal the name given to the legislative initiatives of the Roosevelt administration to alleviate the effects of the Great Depression
• P.W.A. the Public Works Administration, a New Deal government agency whose goal was to increase employment by funding public works projects