The Depression hit the black community of Stamps approximately two years after most of the country was already feeling it.
2. Did it change them much?
The Depression did not change things very drastically as they were already poor and understood sacrifice.
3. Did it alter their view of life?
No. It did not alter their view of life. At Marguerite's house, they were taught "waste not, want not" (Angelou pg. 50).
4. Were they better or worse off than the white community?
Marguerite's mother thought the Depression must have hit the white section of Stamps "with cyclonic impact" (Angelou pg. 50). The change in lifestyle for the white community was much greater.
5. Which would recover faster?
Marguerite states that Stamps was "as slow coming out of the Depression as it had been getting into it" (Angelou pg. 51). Most probably, the Black population recovered more quickly because it lost less.
According to this chapter, there was always generosity in the Black neighborhood. People gave to each other even when they couldn't afford to. This probably made it easier being Black as opposed to being white, which was probably more desperate during the change.
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