well, back then as it still is today, there was a great opposition put upon african americans, and it would have to have made it harder for them to sell their crops, and would get less money vs a white sharecropper.
African American life during the Great Depression and the New Deal. The Great Depression of the 1930s worsened that already bleak economic situation of African Americans. They were the first to be laid off from their jobs, and they suffered from unemployment rate two three times that of whites
