What were some causes and effect of increased discrimination during the Great Depression?

Answer 1

Because of the lack of jobs, many African Americans, Latin Americans, and Asian Americans were pushed out of work places. As the amount of job opportunities began to dwindle, companies fired minorities in order to give their jobs to white people. Many whites claimed that if they were unemployed, that these minorities had no rights to jobs. Some people had these minorities deported back to their countries, even if they were born in the states.

Answer 2

FDR was concentrating on the economic problems for the workers, including minorities. But on the issue of civil rights, FDR was silent. No major civil rights laws were passed. The Democratic Party depended upon the "Solid South" for support and FDR overlooked things like the Jim Crow Laws of southern states. He even refused to give his support to an anti-lynching bill and he allowed segregation of work gangs on federal projects. Under pressure from the NAACP and Eleanor Roosevelt, and other minority leaders, the New Dealers made sure Blacks shared in relief programs. Black people moved into more than a third of new housing units constructed by the federal government.