Dissertation Writers: How did the needs of Jewish refugees change with the progression of the war?
1) Why were a minority of lawmakers opposed to anti-‐lynching legislation?
2) Why were a minority of lawmakers opposed to anti-‐poll tax legislation?
3) How did these minorities still manage to block the two reform laws from being enacted?
4) What do these battles suggest about the integrity of American war aims? 5) What were the needs of Jewish refugees in the mid and late 1930s? How did the federal government respond? What were the arguments against helping Jewish refugees before 1941?
6) How did the needs of Jewish refugees change with the progression of the war? In what way or ways did U.S. policy change? In what way or ways did it stay the same?
7) Should the circumstances of African Americans, ethnic Mexicans, and Jewish refugees be lumped together in one category? Why or why not?
