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1 Note Page 39 Second New Deal & America US History By Morgan J. Burris Lexington Middle School

2 2 nd. New Deal -programs to continue kelp for working class Americans and their families -WPA Works Progress Administration -Social Security Act old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with children -Rural Electrification Administration

3 Labor Relations -National Labor Relations Act--- (Wagner Act) NLRB right to unionize anti-union practices banned -Fair Labor Standards minimum wage, 40 hour week -Growth of AFL, CIO

4 Court Packing -Several New Deal programs ruled unconstitutional AAA, NRA -Roosevelt proposed adding new justices -seen as a threat to checks and balances

5 Women in Depression -Eleanor Roosevelt -several women named to high gov’t positions Francis Perkins Sec. Of Labor -working women faced resentment -women’s wages still lower than men -gov’t programs gave preferences to men

6 African Americans -Mary McLeod Bethune friend of Eleanor Roosevelt established “Black Cabinet” -Concert of Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial -Roosevelt never fully committed to civil rights -African Americans came to support the Democratic Party Over 100,000 people came to hear her sing at Lincoln Memorial on the Washington Mall. ◄ Mary M. Bethune

7 Art and Literature -many artists displayed the reality of the Depression -Federal Arts Project (WPA) -Grant Wood American Gothic -Richard Wright Native Son -John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath

8 Radio and the Masses -family entertainment -soap operas -Children’s Programs Green Hornet, Lone Ranger -Variety shows and plays Bob Hope, George Burns Orson Welles “War of the Worlds”

9 Entertainment -Marx Brothers -Gangster films -Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart ”Mr. Smith goes to Washington” ”It’s a wonderful Life”

10 Motion Pictures -Gone with the Wind, 1939 -Wizard of Oz, 1939 -Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, 1937

11 New Deal Ends -”I see 1/3 of a nation ill - housed, ill-clad, ill- nourished” -by 1937, some recovery so gov’t pulls back programs and depression returns -opposition grows to continued gov’t control -international affairs begin to take precedence - New Deal has great legacy

12 Note Page 39 Second New Deal & America THE END By Morgan J. Burris Lexington Middle School

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