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Impact of New Deal & Eleanor Roosevelt on Women and Minorities

Explore how New Deal under FDR appointed women & minorities to key positions, with Eleanor Roosevelt advocating for their rights and equality. Understand FDR's passive approach towards civil rights for African Americans despite some contributions. Learn about Frances Perkins, Mary McLeod Bethune, and John Collier. Discover the discrimination faced by African Americans in New Deal programs and the challenges faced by Native Americans, African Americans, and Mexican Americans. Engage with the intersection of race and gender in New Deal policies affecting marginalized communities.

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Impact of New Deal & Eleanor Roosevelt on Women and Minorities

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  1. How did the new deal (and Eleanor Roosevelt) affect woman and minorities? What was FDR’S position on civil rights? NavidZeighami Gavin Zuniga Alan Nauaka

  2. The new deal appointed woman and minorities to important official positions • Frances Perkins was the first woman to become a cabinet member • President Roosevelt appointed the first female ambassador and a few federal judges

  3. Eleanor Roosevelt had a huge role in opening up doors for African Americans in the government • The Daughters of the American Revolution denied an African American woman, Marian Anderson, the right to sing in the concert hall in Washington D.C. because she was black • Eleanor Roosevelt set up a performance for Anderson to sing in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. in 1939

  4. Franklin Delanor Roosevelt was never committed to full civil rights for African Americans  • President Roosevelt was very passive aggressive when it came to civil rights for blacks, he never spoke about giving civil rights to African Americans, however made some contributions that gave some African Americans more authority • As many as 1 million African American families benefited from WPA work relief, a number of new deal programs including the FHA, the CCC, and the TVA clearly discriminated against black people

  5. Key Terms • 1. Frances Perkins • First female cabinet member • 2. Mary McLeod Bethune • Named head of the Office of Minority Affairs (a special department of the National youth administration) • 3. John collier • Appointed commissioner of Indian Affairs

  6. New Deal Effects • On Women • not much or no help • Roosevelt lead by example • African-American singer Marian Anderson • On Minorities • Native Americans African Americans Mexican Americans • helped protect their land “black cabinet” met with violence when unionizing • received full citizenship aid from the NYA often disqualified by CCC and WPA

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  8. What three groups were most effected by the new deal? • A: blacks, Mexicans, and Native Americans • B: blacks, Jewish, and Irish immigrants • C:middle class, business men, and the poor

  9. What three groups were most effected by the new deal? • A: blacks, Mexicans, and Native Americans

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