"Depression…What Depression?"

1.  Explore the major impact of the stock market crash and the Great  Depression on the rural and urban black communities throughout the  United States. Provide at least two (2) examples of the actions that  members of both communities took in order to counteract the effects of  the economic adversities in question. 

2.  Explain two (2) ways in which the Depression or World War II assisted  African-Americans in their fight for freedom and equality in the US.  Support your response with pertinent legislation and / or specific  examples of social changes.