The Great Depression Big Ideas Not caused by the Stock Market Crash (marked the beginning) SC was already in a Depression Farming Issues (Hurricane, Boll Weevil, Bank Foreclosures) Banks and Textile Mills Closed
Great Depression Impacts: High Unemployment Marriage and Birth Rates Dropped Homelessness increased Soup kitchens established (Charitable organization could not keep up) People looked for the Government for Help
Recovery from Depression Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President 1932 Promised a “New Deal” (plan to get out of the Depression) Notable South Carolinians: James F. Byrnes Mary Mcleod Bethune
Franklin D. Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes Important Domestic Policy advisor to the FDR. Later appointed to the Supreme Court, Secretary of State and later Governor of SC.
Mary McLeod Bethune Educator / Civil Rights Leader / Member of the Unofficial “Black Cabinet” for FDR Founded College “Bethune Cookman” Organized National Council of Negro Women Director of Negro Affairs for National Youth Administration