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Herbert Hoover
Hoovervilles
Walter Francis White
Thurgood Marshall
Edu]
Terrell Law
Nixon v. Herndon
Smith v. Allwright
Daisy Adams Lampkin
Juanita (Jackson) Mitchel
Ella Baker
Fannie B. Peck
George Schuyler
The young Negroes
Cooperative League in
Harlem
Detroit Housewives League
M.A.L Holsey
Franklin D. Roosevelt
H. Peck.
Purpose of the organization was to promote the
development of local businesses.
Formed by Fannie B. Peck and 50 black women
An organization that combined economic
nationalism and black womens self-determination
Secretary of the National Negro Business League
Consolidated spending power of Harlem housewives
to persuade businesses to hire black women and
children
Founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1900 by
Booker T. Washington, with the support of Andrew
Carnegie.
"to promote the commercial and financial
development of the Negro." It was recognized as
"composed of negro men and women who have
achieved success along business lines
By 1901 spread to New York, and established 320
chapters across the United States.
32nd President of the United States
Elected four times and served from March 1933 to
his death in April 1945
Lead the United States during economic depression
and WWII.
Built a New Deal Coalition that realigned American
politics after 1932, as his New Deal domestic
policies
Programs in response to the Great Depression, and
focused on the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform.
That is Relief for the unemployed and poor;
Recovery of the economy to normal levels; and
Reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat
depression.
Series of domestic programs enacted in the United
States between 1933 and 1936,
Laws passed by Congress as well as presidential
executive orders during the first term (193337) of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Reduced agricultural production by paying farmers
subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill
off excess livestock.
Purpose was to reduce crop surplus and raise the
Extension Service and
County Agricultural
Conservation Committees
National Industrial Recovery
Act (NRA)
Marian Anderson
Harold Ickes
value of crops.
Created the Agricultural Adjustment Administration
to oversee the distribution of the subsidies
Held local control of the AAA and was supposed to
represent all farmers but the county agents were
usually planters and excluded black people
Federal law intended to promote the revival of
manufacturing by allowing cooperation among
industries
Created the National Recover Administration
Temporarily suspended antitrust laws, established
minimum wages, eliminated child labor, maximized
working hours, and strengthened labor unions.
Gave the President regulatory power over pipelines,
interstate and foreign transport of petroleum and
petroleum products
Declared unconstitutional
Administered the National Industrial Recovery Act
and attempted to develop fair competition codes for
discrete industries or lines of business.
Provided funds for local and state relief operations
to restart and expand programs
Built segregated camps to employ young men and
remove them from the poverty of urban areas
A large-scale public works construction agency in
the United States headed by Secretary of the
Interior Harold L. Ickes.
Built large-scale public works such as dams,
bridges, hospitals, and schools.
Temporary agency created to help people through
the winter of 1933-1934
First lady who was considered an ally to black
people, opposed segregation and left Daughters of
the American Revolution after the organization
refused to let black opera singer perform
Publically called for equal opportunity for black
people and pushed it politically
lineage-based membership service organization for
women who are directly descended from a person
involved in United States' independence
Black Opera singer not allowed to perform at
Daughters of American Revolution
Former president of the Chicago chapter of the
Clark Foreman
Daniel Roper
Harry Hopkins
Eugene Jones
National Youth
Administration
William H. Hastie
Robert Weaver
Ira De A. Reid
NAACP
Secretary of the Interior who Roosevelt asked to
take on the task of ensuring that African Americans
received fair treatment
Brought on by Ickes to ensure African Americans
received fair treatment
Recruited highly trained African Americans into
government positions
Supervised New Deal projects for the Department of
the Interior, the state parks, the interdepartmental
committee on Negro affairs, and the power division
of the Public Works Authority
7th U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Made efforts to bring African Americans into
government positions
8th U.S. Secretary of Commerce
One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers
One of the architects of the New Deal, especially
the relief programs of the Works Progress
Administration (WPA)
Made efforts to put African Americans in
government positions
First Executive Secretary of the National Urban
League
Under his direction it expanded its campaign he
implemented boycotts against firms that refused to
employ blacks, pressured schools to expand
vocational opportunities for young people etc.
Member of President Franklin D. Roosevelts Black
Cabinet, under the Department of Commerce
New Deal agency in the United States that focused
on providing work and education for Americans
between the ages of 16 and 25. as part of the Works
Progress Administration (WPA)
Member of Roosevelts Black Cabinet, under the
National Youth Administration
Employed by the Department of the Interior, part of
Roosevelts Black Cabinet
Employed by the Department of the Interior, part of
Roosevelts Black Cabinet
Roosevelts Black Cabinet/ Social Security
Administration
Lawrence W. Oxley
Ambrose Caliver
E. Franklin Frazier
Charles S. Johnson
Opportunity (Journal)
Carter G. Woodson
Lorenzo Greene
Benjamin Quarles
Monroe Work
Gunnar Myrdal
An American Dilemma
(1944)
Set of laws
Social Security
Administration
Lawrence A. Oxley
Archibald Motley Jr
Augusta Savage
Savage School of Arts and
Crafts
Savage Studios and Uptown
Art Laboratory
St. Louis Argus
St. Louis American
Fletcher Henderson
Duke Ellington
Count Bassie
Cab Calloway
Swing
Bebop
Dizzy Gillespie
Charlie Bird Parker
The Amos n Andy Show
Race Films
Stephin Fetchit
Bill Bojangles Robinson
Hattie McDaniels
Oscar Micheaux
Chicago Renaissance
Arna Bontemps
Richard Wright
Philadelphia Independent
The Jones Family
Fair Play Committee
The Negro Soldier
Gone With the Wind
Gospel
Mahalia Jackson
The New Negro Art Theatre
Negro Dance Group
Edna Buy
Hemsley Winfield
Katherine Dunham
Billie Holiday
Charles White
Elizabeth Catlett
Jacob Lawrence
Federal Arts Project
Richard Wright
Native Son
James Baldwin
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
Jesse Owens
Joe Louis Brown
Jackie Robinson
Negro American League
Nation of Islam
Moorish Science Temple of
America
Wallace D. Fard/ Master
Farad Muhammad/ Wali
Farad
The Secret Ritual of the
Nation of Islam
Elijah Muhammad
Father Major Jealous Divine
Peace Mission Movement
New Day Journal
Double V. Campaign
A Philip Randolph
March on Washington
Movement
Benajamin O. Davis Jr
Congress of Racial Equality
James Farmer
Bayard Rustin
Ralph Bunche
House Un-American
Activities Committee
Executive Order 8802
Horace Pippin
Fair Employment Practices
Committee (FEPC)
William H. Hastie
Southern Regional Council
(SRC)
Congress of Racial Equality
(CORE)
Rosa Parks
Ruth Powell
Marianne Musgrave
Juanito Morrow
North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
Cold War
Paul Robeson
Henry Wallace
Harry S. Truman
Executive Order 9981
Adam Clayton Powell
I Love Lucy
Shelly v Kramer
Lyndon B. Johnson
Committee on Equal
Employment Opportunity
Browder v. Gayle
James Meredith
Fred Shuttlesworth
Eugene Bull Connor
Laurie Pritchett
The Albany Movement
Fannie Lou Hamer
Alabama Christian
Movement for Human
Rights (AMHR)
Project C for Confrontation
Letter From a Birmingham
Jail
James Bevel
I Have a Dream Speech
March on Washington for
Jobs and Freedom
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Robert Bob Moses
Council of Federated
Organizations
Mississippi Freedom
Democratic Party (MFDP)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
March from Selma to
Montgomery
Dorothy Irene Height
16th Street Baptist Church
Malcolm X
Muslim Mosque
24th Amendment
Great Society
Stokely Carmichael
Charles V. Hamilton
Vietnam War
Senator Barry Goldwater
Council of Federated
Organizations
Floyd McKissick
Lowndes County
(Mississippi) Freedom
Organization
James H. Cone
Rev. Albert Cleage Jr.
Huey P. Newton
Organization for Afro
American Unity
March Against Fear
Black Power
Hurbert G. Brown
National Council of
Churches
Anna Hedgeman
J. Oscar Lee
James Breeden
Benjamin Payton
Black Manifesto
James Forman
Eldridge Cleaver
Soul on Ice
J. Edgar Hoover
COINTELPRO
Ten Point Program
Fred Hampton
Angela Davis
Soledad Brothers
Jonathon Jackson
Free Angela
Attica Prison
Watts Riot
Newark Riot
Detroit Riot
National Advisor
Commission
Otto Kenner
Edward W. Brooke
Roy Wikins
Economic Opportunity Act
of 1964
Office of Economic
Opportunity
Head Start
Upward Bound
VISTA
War on Poverty
New Careers Program
Job Corps
Community Action Program
War in Vietnam
Viet Cong
Project 100,000
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Muhammad Ali
Chicago Freedom
Movemetn
Mayor Richard Daley
Marquette Park
Nathan Hare
The Black Scholar
Lorraine Hansberry
King of Blues
Archie Sheep
Ornette Coleman
Pharoah Sanders
Eric Dolphy
Thelonious Monk
John Coltrane
Aretha Franklin
James Brown
Berry Gordy
Jesse Jackson
Orangeburg Massacre
Higher Education Act of
1965
Yales Black Student
Alliance
Intro to Black Studies
Ron Karenga
Election of 1968
Eugene McCarthy
Hubert Humphrey
Richard Nixon
Environmental Protection
Agency
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Moynihan Report
Family Assitance Plan (FAP)
Busing
Southern Strategy
International Ladies
Garment Workers Union
Tobacco Workers Organizing
Committee
Thedosia Simpson
Miranda Smith
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company
Food, Tobacco, Agricultural
and Allied Workers of
America
James Forde
Scottsborro Boys
Angela Herdon
Communist Partys
International Labor Defend
Powell v. Alabama (1932)
Norris v. Alabama (1935)
Arthur Mitchell
National Negro Congress
Tuskegee Study
Fred D. Gray
NAACP Legal Defense Fund