Key concepts
Banks overdrawn
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
an American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers of the 20th century, and directed her own dance company for many years. She has been called the "matriarch and queen mother of black dance."
Katherine Dunham
an American gospel singer, she participated in the civil rights movement, singing for fundraisers and at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. She was a vocal and loyal supporter of Martin Luther King Jr. and a personal friend of his family.
Mary Lou Williams
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 ombinbus farm-relief bill embodying the schemes of the major national farm organizations?
AAA
Agricultural Adjustment Act
the first African-American musician to sell a million records from a single and to have a nationally syndicated radio show. He influenced artist like James Brown, Micheal and Janet Jackson.
Cab Calloway
an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era
Jackie Robinson
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
nicknamed “Queen of the blues” her career lasted almost a half a decade. She lost both parents at age 11, she and her 5 siblings picked cotton to survive. Koko never learned how to write she used sign language throughout her life.
Koko Taylor
an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history"
Jesse Owens
over 1 million
Their first case the boys were assigned lawyers, how would you describe them?
Town drunk and a senile old man
Designed to recruit unemployed young men from urban areas to perform conservation work throughout the nations forests, parks, and fields?
CCC
Civilian Conservation Corps
an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen, making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize
Gwendolyn Brooks
an American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music. Called the "Father of Gospel Music" and often credited with creating it
Thomas Dorsey
Name some items that rose as a result of The Great Depression
Rises in Crime, Suicide, and malnutrition
The Scottsboro case was so important and relevant to our history why?
the supreme court intervened multiple times which brought attention to unfair trials and treatment of African Americans
James Farmer created an interracial organization in 1942 named?
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality
the youngest of 15 children. He was one of the most groundbreaking figures in 20th century photography. His photojournalism during the 1940s to the 1970s reveals important aspects of American culture, and he became known for focusing on issues of civil rights, poverty, race relations and urban life. Also photographed the Tuskegee Airmen.
Gordon Parks
recorded more than 100 songs. A musical prodigy, at the age of two, she was able to pick out simple tunes and by the age of three, she was taught piano by her mother
Mahalia Jackson