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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. Background. Stock Market Crash  Banks failed Unemployment. fishwrangler.blogspot.com.

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Major Figures During the Great Depression

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

  2. Background • Stock Market Crash  • Banks failed • Unemployment fishwrangler.blogspot.com Sinclair, Shirley, Roosevelt's, Black Cabinet were leaders, made lives better www.scarpzpaintball.coma

  3. Upton Sinclair • Famous author • Politically active • End Poverty in California (EPIC) • Over making consumer goods www.slate.com/ www.sites.google.com/ www.capitalcentury.com www.theworldsgreatbooks.com/

  4. 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

  5. Shirley Temple • Child star- Fox • Multi talented • Happiness to audience • Take a Bow, Curly Top, Littlest Rebel~1934/1935 www.tvtropes.org www.matchbookmag.com www.fineartamerica.com

  6. 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 

  7. Eleanor Roosevelt • Woman’s Home Companion • Defended/ Spoke against issues • Furniture Factory • Supported people’s rights foresightimprovement.com thetruthnews.info www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu

  8. Black Cabinet • Black advisors • African American participation • Communicated problems groups.yahoo.com Robert C. Weaver • Joint Committee on National Recovery • PWA labor contracts • Housing programs en.wikipedia.org www.archives.gov

  9. Mary McLeod Bethune • 1936 Black Cabinet • NYA-$600,000 • 1937 & 1939 National black conferences • 1935 National Council of Negro Women • Social Security, lynching, racism secondblooming.typepad.com blackpast.com en.wikipedia.org

  10. Conclusion www.docstoc.com • 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 

  11. 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

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