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Major Figures During the Great Depression By: Catherine Jen & Roselyn artofmanilness.com Royse City-9 yr. old girl's letter

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Page 1: Major Figures  During the Great Depression

Major Figures During the Great

Depression By: Catherine

Jen &

Roselyn

artofmanilness.com

Royse City-9 yr. old girl's letter

Page 2: Major Figures  During the Great Depression

Background Stock Market Crash  Banks failed Unemployment

fishwrangler.blogspot.com

Sinclair, Shirley, Roosevelt's, Black Cabinet were leaders, made lives better

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Page 3: Major Figures  During the Great Depression

Upton Sinclair Famous author Politically active End Poverty in California

(EPIC) Over making consumer

goods

www.capitalcentury.com

www.slate.com/

www.sites.google.com/www.theworldsgreatbooks.com/

Page 4: Major Figures  During the Great Depression

Upton Sinclair EPIC plan:

› Proposed making abandoned factories available to the unemployed

› Made what they could and exchanged goods Decrease aid given to unemployed

www.tantor.com www.ralphmag.org

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Shirley Temple Child star- Fox Multi talented Happiness to audience Take a Bow, Curly Top, Littlest

Rebel~1934/1935

www.fineartamerica.com

www.tvtropes.org

www.matchbookmag.com

Page 6: Major Figures  During the Great Depression

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

en.wikipedia.org 

hist8.wordpress.com 

www.stlouisfed.org 

Page 7: Major Figures  During the Great Depression

Eleanor Roosevelt

Woman’s Home Companion Defended/ Spoke against issues Furniture Factory Supported people’s rights foresightimprovement.com 

thetruthnews.info  www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu

 

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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

groups.yahoo.com

en.wikipedia.orgwww.archives.gov

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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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en.wikipedia.org blackpast.com

Page 10: Major Figures  During the Great Depression

Conclusion FDR vs Herbert Hoover Sinclair, Shirley, Roosevelt's, Black

Cabinet were leaders, made lives better Realize people were important

www.salon.com  www.npr.org 

www.docstoc.com

 

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Bibliography  Johnson, Yvonne J. "Roosevelt, Eleanor." The Thirties in America. Ed.

Thomas Tandy Lewis. 3 Vols. Salem Press, 2011. Salem History Web. 10 Oct. 2013

Kirby, John B. "Black Cabinet." Encyclopedia of the Great Depression. Ed. Robert S. McElvaine. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004. 102-103. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 11 Oct. 2013.

 Kirby, John B. "Weaver, Robert Clifton." Encyclopedia of the Great Depression. Ed. Robert S. McElvaine. Vol. 2. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004. 1026-1027. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 11 Oct. 2013

 "Mary McLeod Bethune." Notable Black American Women. Gale, 1992. U.S. History In Context. Web. 14 Oct. 2013.

Neiheisel, Steve. "Roosevelt, Franklin D." The Thirties in America. Ed. Thomas Tandy Lewis. 3 Vols. Salem Press, 2011. Salem History Web. 10 Oct. 2013

 Svoboda, Cynthia J. W. "Temple, Shirley." The Thirties in America. Ed. Thomas Tandy Lewis. 3 Vols. Salem Press, 2011. Salem History Web. 10 Oct. 2013

Webb, Shawncey. "Sinclair, Upton." The Thirties in America. Ed. Thomas Tandy Lewis. 3 Vols. Salem Press, 2011. Salem History Web. 10 Oct. 2013