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Questions for Discussion: African American Daily Conditions

  • What other types of businesses and jobs do you think might have been found in African-American communities in the 1940s and 1950s?
  • Why was the role of the church in African American life? How was the church significant to the Civil Rights movement?
  • What does the classroom photo reveal about conditions in black schools?
  • What do you think community groups, such as garden clubs, were important in the African American community?