Major Figures During the Great Depression
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Major Figures During the Great
Depression By: Catherine
Jen &
Roselyn
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Background Stock Market Crash Banks failed Unemployment
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Sinclair, Shirley, Roosevelt's, Black Cabinet were leaders, made lives better
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Upton Sinclair Famous author Politically active End Poverty in California
(EPIC) Over making consumer
goods
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Upton Sinclair EPIC plan:
› Proposed making abandoned factories available to the unemployed
› Made what they could and exchanged goods Decrease aid given to unemployed
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Shirley Temple Child star- Fox Multi talented Happiness to audience Take a Bow, Curly Top, Littlest
Rebel~1934/1935
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Fireside Chats New Deal
-Put to work unemployed -Direct assistance income -Stabilized prices and wages-Safety of deposits put into banks- regulate stock investing
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Woman’s Home Companion Defended/ Spoke against issues Furniture Factory Supported people’s rights foresightimprovement.com
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Black advisors African American participation Communicated problems
Joint Committee on National Recovery PWA labor contracts Housing programs
Black Cabinet
Robert C. Weaver
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Mary McLeod Bethune 1936 Black Cabinet NYA-$600,000 1937 & 1939 National black conferences 1935 National Council of Negro Women Social Security, lynching, racism
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Conclusion FDR vs Herbert Hoover Sinclair, Shirley, Roosevelt's, Black
Cabinet were leaders, made lives better Realize people were important
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