Chapter 15: Sections 3-5

 Frances Perkins (Sec of Labor)  Social Security  Women faced discrimination  NRA set lower wages for women  Fewer women hired in New Deal programs

 A. Philip Randolph  100 AA appointed to key gov positions  Mary McLeod Bethune (Division of Negro Affairs of the Nat’l Youth Admin)  Black Cabinet  Marian Anderson  However, FDR did not fully support civil rights.  Poll tax Anti-lynching law  WHY? Southern Democrats

 Supported the New Deal however, did not benefit as much as African-Americans  Became targets of hostility because they took jobs away from Americans  Faced discrimination

 Rec’d strong gov support  Rec’d full citizenship by 1924  John Collier, commissioner of Indian Affairs  Indian Reorganization Act 1934 Move away from Dawes Assimilation Act Gained political, economic and cultural rights previously

 Wagner Act Collective bargaining & right to unionize  Fair Labor Standards Act Minimum wage Maximum hours No hazardous work for those under 18  Unions increased from 3 to 10 m  American Federation of Labor (AFL)  Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO)

 Fed’l gov assumed responsibility for the social welfare of its citizens  Social Security Act Old-age insurance Unemployment compensation system Aid to disabled

 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Planted millions of trees Created hiking trails  Tennessee River Valley Authority  Soil Conservation Service  National Park System enlarged

 Southern whites  Some urban groups  African Americans  Unionized industrial workers

 Motion Pictures  Radio  Federal Art Project  American Gothic – Grant Wood  Woody Guthrie  Richard Wright  John Steinbeck – Grapes of Wrath  Dorothea Lange – Migrant Mother

Conservative critics Liberal critics Legacy Glass-Steagal Act FDIC Securities & Exchange Act (SEC) Fair Labor Standards Act & Wagner Act Social Security Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)