Major Figures

1. Major Figures By Paige Arcand, Helena Kurpaska, and Isabel Stasko

2. Stars of the age • Shirley Temple • Started acting at the age of three years old • First big role was from 1932-1933 • Had a contract with Twentieth Century-Fox • Break out role was in Stand up and Cheer where she captured hearts singing “Baby, Take a Bow” • Earned a Oscar for her contribution to Entertainment • Danced along side Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Buddy Ebsen, and many others • Many young girls tried to mimic her curls, and even got a drink named after her • After Twentieth Century dumped her, she moved onto Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer • She got supporting roles in her teens • Peoples love for her waned when she started getting into her teen years

3. Influential People • Eleanor Roosevelt • Husband became President in 1933 • Provided food for the Bonus Army of unemployed veterans • Made a campaign that helped with unhealthy alley dwellings, and eliminate decrepit • Her first year as first lady, she wrote a monthly column for a magazine called the Women's Home Companion • She spoke against sweatshops and even defended the low-cost housing, minimum wage, women’s jobs, old-age pensions, and equal pay for equal work • Traveled all around the nation in support of the un- and underemployed • Supported labor rights and women's rights, she for equal rights for African Americans and spoke at labor meetings • Roosevelt began publishing a column in a newspaper in 1936 that she called My Day • Visited U.S. combat troops • Was still active in politics until she died in 1962

4. Influential People • Franklin Delano Roosevelt • President from 1933-1945 • Three re-elections • Took care of the nation when they were on the edge of an economic collapse • Declared a bank holiday so the Treasury could examine the bank’s book’s • Had fire side chats with the country about how the country was doing economically • Suggested the name for the united nations which was a alliance • Had many strategies for the war and how he was going to try to win

5. African American Leaders • Bessie Smith • Was very successful before the stock market crash • During the depression, she was booked less and less making her a little more unpopular • She never gave up, so during the depression she reinvented herself and her performances • After being reinvented, she wowed her New York audiences • She was a very successful artist for Columbia records • Was dropped in 1931 because her label thought that people wouldn’t want to buy her singing popular standards • Was a very big influential for the music business • Many people thought because she was African American, that she would do as well as she did

6. Important News Events • Great Northern Migration • A demographic shift were many African Americans moved from the southern states to the northern and Midwestern states • The total of the net migration was about 1.1 million+ during the migration • About 2 million African Americans left the south • Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New York were the most popular states • States that lost the most were Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia and South Carolina • It took about 50 years for African Americans to leave in larger quantities because they were the subject of debate among many historians and social scientists • Since many workers that left worked in agriculture, there were a few bad years for crops • Industries only really hired the immigrants during strikes because the other workers were protesting • The Great Migration ended with the Great Depression • Since the increase of poverty, many migrators found the north less desirable