As a child growing up in the depression era you would have your mother sewing all of your clothes for you for the summer and winter. Also during the depression era blacks were not effected really becasue they were already in poverty. to really understand how blacks had to deal with the depression i suggest reading this interview at http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/mculley.html This interview gives you the real deal on what it was like for blacks in the depression.Also during the depression alot blacks were deppending on eachother for alot of things the reason they depended on eachother was because they knew the white man wasn't going to give you nothhing. to understand thorughlly i suggest http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=womenshistory&bcpid=1859729963&bclid=1631259987&bctid=1620576794. This shows how it was for blacks.