Blacks Vs. Blacks In The 1930's

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Life in the 1930’s isn't as easy as you think, especially if you're black. We have to go through many hard things like the great depression, we didn't have much to choose from when we wanted a job, and education wasn't the best either. Whites always thought they were better than the blacks and deserved more because of their skin color. Just because blacks were a little bit darker than the whites, they were more transcendence, but they we were are all equal.
Blacks do not get much of an education, jobs, or as many rights as the whites did. When it came to education, we could only go to school until we hit middle school, we couldn't go to high school because whites though we were too dumb to learn advanced schooling. If we got a job it wasn't

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