The Great Depression affected racial minorities more severely than other groups because racial minorities __________
a. were the first to be fired and last to be hired
b. had more heavily speculated in the stock market
c. had invested more in small, failing banks
d. were excluded from recognition by the government in the New Deal plans
e. were generally poor at the start of the Great Depression, so they sank even further into poverty and did not know how to cope with it
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