What role did civil rights play in the New Deal?

Question

little or a lot?

Answer 1

It was the beginning of the civil rights movement . Eleanor Roosevelt fought hard to get African Americans 10 percent of Social Security which is one of the main programs that remains today from the new Deal. After WW2 ended and many African Americans fought although in segregated units it sent a message that if they were willing to fight for a country that treated the African Americans as second class citizens. It laid the groundwork and some of the laws that moved to Kennedy's "Great Society" When Johnson signed the voting act in 1968 that was the first major change in quality of life for especially the Southern Blacks. I am sure you have read or learned what problems were created by that law. Essentially though the new Deal empowered the Federal government to step in on Minority issues and if Roosevelt had not passed that then the road to equality which many argue and probably rightfully so has not been reached. I hope this helped a bit. TC messtograves

Answer 2

A little. The New Deal put in effect by President FDR was more interested in spreading the wealth than he was in actually getting poor people richer. The wealthy got mad at him for raising the taxes and the poor were happy because of the new jobs they were given. So I geuss it depends how you look at it. If you're poor you think that FDR is helping the cause of civil rights. If you were wealthy, you thought FDR was restricting your freedoms.