How did the Great Depression impact African Americans? Select the two correct answers.
A.
Declining agricultural prices led to lower wages and massive layoffs.
B.
A growing number of racial violence cases resulted in new civil rights legislation.
C.
White workers conspired to have African Americans fired so they could access those jobs.
D.
African American landowners fared the same as their white counterparts.
E.
The Scottsboro Trial highlighted the inherent equality of the justice system.
A. Declining agricultural prices led to lower wages and massive layoffs. and C. White workers conspired to have African Americans fired so they could access those jobs.
Read the excerpt from the article "Art and Entertainment in the 1930s and 1940s" from the Library of Congress.
Select three sentences from the highlighted text that mention a common form of escapism that people enjoyed during the Great Depression.