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The six page review by Ken I. Kersch of “Blacks and labor, the untold story” is available below. Franklin Roosevelt was no friend of the black community. His NRA initiative did everything in its power to guarantee their demise. Hence the poem, 1933, the Negro Removal Act.
THE National Recovery Administration, or “NRA,” a linch-pin of Franklin Roosevelt’s First Hundred Days, did not fare well in the African-American press. “Negro Removal Act,” “Negroes Ruined Again,” and “Negroes Robbed Again,” were only a few of the epithets launched at what many blacks took to be a poisoned spoonful of alphabet soup.
Deprived of civil rights, Thrown out in plain sight; Their jobs taken in might. Pushed down the social scene Into exile — the Stalinist regime. — Or — Was it the National Recovery Act Better known to blacks As the Negro Removal Act of 1933 [1] In which the government deemed A win for their team. It was designed at a time During Jim Crow's landmine With a progressive administration:
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