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E. Roosevelt
NAACP
Blacks in the Great Depression
100
The quote "the day of working together has come..." was said by Eleanor Roosevelt in a speech on black education in this year.
What is 1934?
100
The NAACP cannot overlook the discrepancies between the income of tenant farmers and landlords and make light of this administration's Acts.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration? (AAA)
100
St. Louis Urban League launched the national "Jobs for Negroes" movement in this year.
What is 1929?
200
Unlike her husband, Eleanor publicly supported the passage of this bills.
What is Anti-Lynching bills?
200
This law was passed in 1933 to help both share-croppers and landlords gain more money from their chief crop, cotton.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933?
200
The Roosevelt Administration's accessibility to black leaders and the New Deal reforms strengthened black support for this party.
What is the Democratic Party?
300
The name of Eleanor's news paper column.
What is "My Day"?
300
The NAACP sent two undercover board members disguised as laborers to analyze this project.
What is the Mississippi Flood Control Project?
300
This administration gave jobs back to many blacks.
What is The Work Projects Administration?
400
Eleanor Roosevelt wrote to members of Congress demanding this type of assistance.
What is Childcare Assistance?
400
The publicity of the AAA's failures led to this
What is the AAA's restructuring of their policies?
400
These two organizations enabled black organizations to continue their education.
What are The National Youth Administration and The Civilian Conservation Corps.
500
This member of the "black cabinet" served as the National Youth Administration's director of Negro Affairs.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
500
Due to the Building Contractors' Code, this amount of money had to be paid where the minimum wage was less than 40 cents per hour
What is 30 cents per hour?
500
Efforts to unify the black organizations and youth groups later led to the founding of these two Congresses in these two years.
What are National Negro Congress in 1936 and Southern Negro YouthCongress in 1937?