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Such appeals often went nowhere during the Depression. Black schools remained underfunded and unmaintained. Inadequate education, moreover, was compounded by racial injustice: those African Americans who built and maintained their own schools continued to be taxed by the white school boards who denied black schools funding. Yet the prospects for black education during the Depression were not universally grim. Black colleges prospered during the decade, beneficiaries of donations by northern white philanthropists who weathered the Depression without difficulty. New Deal agencies, especially the National Youth Administration, provided African Americans with instruction in academic subjects, industrial arts, and domestic services. Most important, in northern cities African Americans used the budget cutbacks of the Depression as an occasion to desegregate schools.
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