Key concepts
Banks overdrawn (went under)
stock market crashed
overproduction
high unemployment
causes of the great depression
How many boys were involved in the case and how many actually knew each other
9 total and 4 actually knew each other
Provided money to older workers so they could retire and new jobs for younger americans
SSA
social security administration
New Deals
President Roosevelt set up programs to help with getting the country back on track after The Great Depression
What were the ages on the boys invovled
12-17
This program was an omnibus farm-relief bill embodying the schemes of the major national farm organizations?
AAA
Agricultural Adjustment Act
an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951. Nicknamed “The Brown Bomber”, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential boxers of all time. He reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 until his temporary retirement in 1949.
Joe Louis
an American professional baseball player in the negro leagues and Major League Baseball who was the second black player to break baseballs color barrier and the first black player in the American League.
Larry Doby
The Great Depression was what time period?
1929-1941
The orginal charge given to the boys was and the sentence for the charge at the time was?
Rape, sentenced to death
This program created jobs for 8.5 million people mostly men who were not formally educated to carry out public works projects
WPA
Works Progress Administration
an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games. He achieved international fame at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, by winning four gold medals: 100 meters, long jump, 200 meters, and 4 × 100-meter relay. He was the most successful athlete at the Games and, as a black American man, was credited by ESPN with "single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy"..
Jesse Owens
an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era
Jackie Robinson
over 1 million
Their first case the boys were assigned lawyer, how would you describe them?
Town drunk
Designed to recruit unemployed young men from urban areas to perform conservation work throughout the nations forests, parks, and fields?
CCC
Civilian Conservation Corps
American gospel music singer, known as the “Queen of Gospel Song.”During her history-making career, the first gospel singer to perform at Carnegie Hall (1952) and at Newport Jazz Festival (1958). She was most known for her part in the civil rights movement; in 1963, at the March on Washington, she sang the old African American spiritual “I Been 'Buked and I Been Scorned” for a crowd estimated at 250,000, just before civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
Mahalia Jackson
an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader. She was the second wife of Louis Armstrong, with who she collaborated on many recordings in the 1920s. One of his most famous songs were “Struttin’ with Some Barbecue”.
Lillian Hardin
Lil Armstrong
Name some items that rose as a result of The Great Depression
Rises in Crime, Suicide, and malnutrition
Why was the Scottsboro case was so important and relevant to our history?
the supreme court intervened multiple times which brought attention to unfair trials, proper representation, and jury of your peers.
James Farmer created an interracial organization in 1942 named?
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality
an American sociologist and college administrator, the first black president of historically black Fisk University. He was also a lifelong advocate for racial equality and the advancement of civil rights for African Americans and all ethnic minorities.
Charles S. Johnson
an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. She knew at a young age she wanted to become a writer so she could write books for people of color so she wouldn’t be ashamed. Known for her literary writing. Her notable works include For My People (1942) which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, and the novel Jubilee(1966), set in the South during the American Civil War.
Margaret Walker