Depression…What Depression?”

Please respond to the following questions: (Note: Please respond to the following in at least 175 words. In addition, please make a substantive comment (at least five sentences) to one [1] of your classmates. Make sure to provide examples that will expand your classmate’s response. Do NOT attach responses to the thread.
In responding to this week’s questions students need to keep in mind that these are “mini essays” more than “discussions”. This is the only opportunity that students will have to demonstrate their command of the topics under discussion, so every student should make these responses count. This applies to the classmate response as well. 

From the e-Activity and this week’s readings, explore the major impact of the stock market crash and the Great Depression on the rural and urban black communities throughout the United States. Provide at least two (2) examples of the actions that members of both communities took in order to counteract the effects of the economic adversities in question. Explain two (2) ways in which the Depression or World War II assisted African-Americans in their fight for freedom and equality in the US. Support yo