In 1938, Mary McLeod Bethune persuaded Eleanor Roosevelt to join her at the founding meeting of the ________, a group dedicated to attacking the South's especially severe economic problems.
A) Southern Conference for Human Welfare
B) Young Women's Christian Association
C) National Negro Congress
D) Works Progress Administration
Question 2
In addition to providing direct relief, such as food, New Deal programs:
A) created scholarship programs for black students.
B) set aside land in the west for the relocation of unemployed blacks.
C) tended to ignore African American communities that did not vote en masse for Democratic candidates.
D) gave training and jobs to black workers who had previously been unemployed or restricted to menial jobs and domestic service.
Male (Bull) Roosevelt Elk at Northwest Trek, Washington, USA
The Roosevelt Political Revolution (1 of 2)
Mary Cassatt, The Bath.
Eleanor Antin, Minetta Lane—A Ghost Story.
Mary Mattingly, Triple Island.
John Muir (right) with President Roosevelt at Yosemite National Park