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From a Raw Deal to a New Deal English grammar Beginning with the early republic'sBank closings, soup kitchens, bread lines, unemployed workers begging for work these images defined the 1930s and '40s in America. For African Americans the era was a study in contrasts: black workers had the highest unemployment rate at a time when black leaders held important positions in Franklin Roosevelt's administration; New Deal legislation threw hundreds of thousands of black sharecroppers off the land while the same federal government