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Blacks In Norfolk Virginia During The 1930'S, Norma Cromwell Fields

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This thesis analyzes the experience of blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, during the Depression decade of the 1930's. It emphasizes the problems blacks faced in an era of rising unemployment and entrenched segregation. The study uses a variety of tables to show comparatively high rates of' disease, joblessness, and crime along with related discrimination in pay and in the distribution of public and private funds for humanitarian purposes.

Using a wide variety of primary sources, including personal interviews, the study examines a variety of subjects. In addition to portraying the plight of the black population, the thesis discusses the role of …