Wishlist and Suggested Location of Information

Question: How did economic inequality during the Great Depression challenge the African American's view on civil rights?

Wishlist:

1. African American civil rights laws before and after 1929
2. Violence towards African Americans, such as lynchings, due to job competition that went unnoticed or were ignored during the Great Depression
3. Unemployment rates of African Americans before and after Great Depression (1928, 1933)
4. percentage of African Americans listed on government relief rolls (Roosevelt's New Deal) and the percentage of African Americans that actually benefited from these governmental relief programs
5. social discrimination in New Deal agencies (racial segregation)
6. average income of African Americans before and during Great Depression (1928, 1933)
7. African Americans who fought for their civil rights during the Great Depression but was oppressed by the white majority

Suggested Location of Information:

1. historian's purpose: to document African American civil rights movement before Martin Luther King Jr. (1900 to around 1960s)
   limits: historian does not go in depth about how African American civil rights movement was affected by Great Depression
   the information I am looking for should be in a book
2. historian's purpose: hate crimes committed from 1900 to 1950 (violence against African Americans)
   limits: may not provide how other African Americans felt about these violent acts
   the information I am looking for should be in a book
   
3. historian's purpose: to study unemployment rates before and during the Great Depression (History Alive! provides limited info on this topic)
   limits: does not give info about how this affected African Americans' attitude or emotions about the hardships during the Great Depression
   the info I am looking for should be in an article (economic or historical)
4. historian's purpose: the impact of the New Deal on African Americans(Roosevelt's actions to improve the economic situation)
   limits: may include more info about the "success" of the New Deal
   the information I am looking for should be in a book
5. historian's purpose: to explain how the New Deal attempted to resolve the financial crisis (ex. who the New Deal benefited, why, and how the New Deal actually helped people during the Great Depression)
   limits: may focus on how New Deal affected the white majority
   the information I am looking for should be in a book
6. historian's purpose: to show the standard of living of African Americans before and during Great Depression
   limits: the historian should focus on the standard of living of African Americans as a whole
   this piece of information should be in an article
7. historian's purpose: significant African Americans during the 1900s that fought for African American civil rights
   limits: may be overly focused on the African American civil rights leaders in the mid-1900s (the time when Martin Luther King Jr. was around)
   this piece of information should be in a book