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In addition to desegregating war industries, President Roosevelt agreed to:

A. end discrimination in the military draft.
B. begin desegregating public schools.
C. make better jobs available to African Americans.
D. support African Americans running for office.

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C. Make better jobs available to African Americans.

Step-by-step explanation:

"During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately impacted by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to create his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to show relief to the unemployed and recovery of the nationwide economy. Though African Americans were not the intended audience for these programs, they benefitted as many citizens did. Labor laws that encouraged union organization and defined a minimum wage also supported black workers.

Roosevelt’s ease programs made him popular with many African Americans, though he shied away from aggressively announcing civil rights or an anti-lynching law, for fear of estranging Southern whites. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was more empathetic to black causes. She created a stir when she helped to move Marian Anderson’s concert at the Lincoln Memorial after the black singer was prohibited from performing at Constitution Hall because of her ethnicity.

After the United States entered World War II, Roosevelt quickly moved to shore up African American support and quiet foreign propaganda about the cure of the negro in America. He ordered the justice department to not only pass anti-lynching laws but to finally begin enforcing longstanding anti-peonage laws aimed at ending forced labor in the South."

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In addition to desegregating war industries, President Roosevelt agreed to "C. make better jobs available to African Americans", since he knew that this would help the US economy as a whole.
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