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US History

By Morgan J. Burris Lexington Middle School

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

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

Women in 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

Over 100,000 people came to hear her sing at Lincoln Memorial on the Washington

Mall.

◄ Mary M. Bethune

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 and 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

New Deal Ends-”I see 1/3 of a nation ill -

housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished”

-by 1937, some recovery so gov’t pulls back programs and depression returns

-opposition grows to continued gov’t control

-international affairs begin to take precedence

- New Deal has great legacy

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