Political and Cultural Seeds of The Civil Rights Movement Officially beginning in 1929, The Great Depression hit Americans hard, crossing all ethnic, racial, and social barriers. Northern and southern businessmen, urban and rural working classes, men and women alike faced difficult economic battles during this time. As the nation struggled to recover, African Americans relied on their self taught cooperation that had helped them endure the recovery from slavery to make many political and cultural strides …showed first 75 words of 1355 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1355 total…Roosevelt administration gained and sought to keep African American allegiance to the Democratic Party. As blacks found new political strengths in organizations such as the NIRA, AAA, and the NAACP, musicians, filmmakers, writers, and artists all helped to establish a black nationalism and restore a sense of pride to African Americans in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Their cultural pride and political achievements inevitably served as a steppingstone to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s.