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- Title: Forrester Blanchard Washington and His Advocacy for African Americans in the New Deal.
- Author : Social Work
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 204 KB
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For six months in 1934, before the enactment of the Social Security Act, Forrester Blanchard Washington agitated for social change as director of Negro Work in the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and used his reputation and accomplishments as a social work leader to create broad awareness of the negative consequences of the New Deal's social welfare policy for African Americans (Kirby, 1980). His advocacy is significant because his efforts represent social work's early attention to the need for work opportunities for African American people. Washington sought to change policies that placed African Americans on public assistance programs and that "reinforced the links of dependence and subordination" between them and elite white people (Lieberman, 2005, p. 65). Washington's efforts were important to the evolution of social work in the United States because he advocated for a vulnerable African American population at a time when the profession, mirroring the broader society, generally offered little validation for their contributions to the cultural, social, and economic development of the country. Some leading white settlement house leaders and their associates, including Jane Addams, Louise de Koven, Frances Kellor, and John Daniels, blamed the social and economic problems of African Americans "on what they considered [to be] the weakness of the black family, the degradation of the black individual psyche and the annihilation of culture, all resulting from the system of slavery" (Lasch-Quinn, 1993, p. 13). The role of government and public policy in creating these problems was secondarily considered. The perspectives held by these settlement house movement leaders had long-term consequences in that they dominated the thinking of reformers who came after them (Lasch-Quinn). They helped create the social work climate in which Washington worked for equal employment for African Americans.
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