Post on 19-Jan-2016
-programs to continue kelp for working class Americans and their families
-WPA
Works Progress Administration
-Social Security Act
old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with children
-Rural Electrification Administration
2nd New Deal
-programs to continue kelp for working class Americans and their families
-WPA
Works Progress Administration
-Social Security Act
old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with children
-Rural Electrification Administration
More Programs
-programs to continue kelp for working class Americans and their families
-WPA
Works Progress Administration
-Social Security Act
old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with children
-Rural Electrification Administration
More Programs
-programs to continue kelp for working class Americans and their families
-WPA
Works Progress Administration
-Social Security Act
old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with children
-Rural Electrification Administration
More Programs
-programs to continue kelp for working class Americans and their families
-WPA
Works Progress Administration
-Social Security Act
old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with children
-Rural Electrification Administration
More Programs
-programs to continue kelp for working class Americans and their families
-WPA
Works Progress Administration
-Social Security Act
old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with children
-Rural Electrification Administration
More Programs
Labor Relations
-National Labor Relations Act---(Wagner Act)
NLRB
right to unionize
anti-union practices banned
-Fair Labor Standards
minimum wage, 40 hour week
-Growth of AFL, CIO
Court Packing
-Several New Deal programs ruled unconstitutional
AAA, NRA
-Roosevelt proposed adding new justices
-seen as a threat to checks and balances
Court Packing
-Several New Deal programs ruled unconstitutional
AAA, NRA
-Roosevelt proposed adding new justices
-seen as a threat to checks and balances
Women in the Depression
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-several women named to high gov’t positions
Francis Perkins
Sec. Of Labor
-working women faced resentment
-women’s wages still lower than men
-gov’t programs gave preferences to men
Women in the Depression
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-several women named to high gov’t positions
Francis Perkins
Sec. Of Labor
-working women faced resentment
-women’s wages still lower than men
-gov’t programs gave preferences to men
African Americans
-Mary McLeod Bethune
friend of Eleanor Roosevelt
established “Black Cabinet”
-Concert of Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial
-Roosevelt never fully committed to civil rights
-African Americans came to support the Democratic Party
Art and Literature
-many artists displayed the reality of the Depression
-Federal Arts Project (WPA)
-Grant Wood
American Gothic
-Richard Wright
Native Son
-John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath
Art and Literature
-many artists displayed the reality of the Depression
-Federal Arts Project (WPA)
-Grant Wood
American Gothic
-Richard Wright
Native Son
-John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath
Radio Entertains the Masses
-family entertainment
-soap operas
-Children’s Programs
Green Hornet, Lone Ranger
-Variety shows and plays
Bob Hope, George Burns
Orson Welles
“War of the Worlds”
Entertainment
-Marx Brothers
-Gangster films
- Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart
”Mr. Smith goes to Washington”
”It’s a wonderful Life”
Motion Pictures
-Gone with the Wind, 1939
-Wizard of Oz, 1939
-Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, 1937
Motion Pictures
-Gone with the Wind, 1939
-Wizard of Oz, 1939
-Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, 1937
End of the New Deal
-”I see 1/3 of a nation ill -housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished”
-by 1937, some recovery
-gov’t pulls back programs and depression returns
-opposition grows to continued gov’t control
-international affairs begin to take precedence
End of the New Deal
-”I see 1/3 of a nation ill -housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished”
-by 1937, some recovery
-gov’t pulls back programs and depression returns
-opposition grows to continued gov’t control
-international affairs begin to take precedence