How were blacks and handicapped people treated?
The blacks were most certainly a suppressed race and worked mainly picking cotton or as migrant workers on farms. As you have no doubt read, these were extremely lean years and whites were thrown into unemployment and traversed the land eking out a living as best they could. The KKK was ever present in the thirties and I am sure the blacks suffered under their hands. This was an era of the “survival of the fittest” and there was not a lot of money available for special treatment of the handicapped or people with mental illness. There were some facilities for the mentally challenged but the treatment was antiquated such as the use of shock treatment. The mentally handicapped were mostly institutionalized and it came to light years later that many were sterilized so they could not reproduce. Q: Were blacks worse off than today? A: I must state that blacks were most definitely treated much worse in 1930’s than they are today. In the 30’s blacks were mistreated by the Ku Klux Klan and murd
