major figures during the great depression

Major Figures During the Great

Depression By: Catherine

Jen &

Roselyn

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Royse City-9 yr. old girl's letter

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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