Minorities and the New Deal
This act hurt African American sharecroppers and tenant farmers.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
Some of these type jobs included teaching and nursing and were considered Depression proof.
What are "pink collar jobs"?
The 1928 Democratic presidential candidate who did not support the New Deal because he felt it was unconstitutional.
Who is Al Smith.
A recovery program that was intended to help farmers, by paying them not to grow crops.
What is the agricultural adjustment act?
SSA.
What is the Social Security Act?
President Roosevelt's unofficial advisory group on African American affairs.
What is the Black Cabinet?
The Director of Negro Affairs for the National Youth Administration.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune
The Louisiana Senator who offered the U.S. "The Share Our Wealth Program" that promised to redistribute income in the United States.
Who is Huey Long?
It was Roosevelt's favorite New Deal program, and offered work to males 18-25 in outdoors projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
REA
What is the Rural Electrification Administration?
The Head of the BIA who advocated for cultural pluralism and and an end to the Dawes Act.
Who is John Collier?
One of the biggest advocate for civil rights in the Roosevelt administration, she urged Franklin Roosevelt to take action to pass anti lynching legislation.
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt.
The Detroit radio priest who felt Roosevelt had not dealt with Wall Street bankers harshly enough.
Who is Charles Coughlin?
This relief program also hired workers to go to the South the interview the living ex-slaves, and gave us the slave narratives.
What is the Works Progress Administration.
SEC
What is the Securities Exchange Commission?
Roosevelt's point person for on programs for Hispanics.
Who is Denis Chavez?
The Opera singer who gave a concert at the Lincoln Memorial after the Daughter's of the American Revolution refused to allow her to sing at their facility.
Who was Marian Anderson
The Head of the American Socialist Party who felt that Roosevelt's New Deal helped the rich more than it helped the poor.
Who is Norman Thomas?
It insured bank savings up to $5,000.00
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
FHA
What is the Federal Housing Administration?
Roosevelt refused to support this legislation to stop violence against minorities,
What is the anti-lynching bill?
Hattie Carraway, the first female United States Senator represented this state.
What is Arkansas?
The conservative organization led by the DuPont family that felt the New Deal was to radical, and said that Roosevelt was a traitor to his patrician roots.
What is the American Liberty League?
After the AAA was found unconstitutional it was Roosevelt's new way to pay farmers for not growing crops.
What is the Domestic Soil and Conservation Allotment Program?
EBA
What is the Emergency Banking Act?