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to high positions. ?Working closely with Ickes and Eleanor This march went down 5th avenue, then to 5th street and
Roosevelt, the IIG helped to secure the appointment of at finished at Madison Square. The NAACP thought this would
least one black adviser in all but five of some two dozen stop racism, but it not only affected this but it touched
New Deal agencies by 1937. This network of officeholders people. A man named James Weldon Johnson wrote an
became known as the "Black Cabinet."? (Gale). This is really autobiography called ?Along the Way?, this is what he said
how the Black Cabinet all started ?By mid-1935, forty-five about the march ?the streets of New York have witnessed
had positions in cabinet offices and New Deal agencies? ( many strange sites, but I judge, never one stranger than this;
The Black Cabinet). This shows how many African among the watchers were those with tears in their
Americans got appointed. In the beginning African eyes.?(Newman).
aMericans had no jobs, but now they have very high
positions as advisors and agencies and offices. This later
The NAACP never stopped Fighting
became known as the ?Black Cabinet?. The role that the
Black Cabinet mainly focused on was black employment, You might think that the NAACP is not in use today
eduction, and civil rights issues which would help African but, you would be largely mistaken. The NAACP recently
Americans a great deal. Some important members of the responded to president Trump?s address on the state of our
black cabinet were Mary union ?President Trump?s address tonight was political
McLeod Bethune, theater at its best. In an attempt to reset the nation and
director of the Congress after two years of bitter partisanship and deeply
Division of personal attacks, that Trump himself initiated, it is evident
The crash that sent wall street into panic causing the Great Depression
Negro Affairs that his address was nothing but a hollow call for unity.?
unify African American organizations and youth groups of the National (The NAACP?s response) The NAACP is saying that Donald
later led to the founding of the National Negro Congress in Youth Trump uses this as an opportunity to spew the racial

You wake up in a shack made of cardboard, your 1936 and the Southern Negro Youth Congress in 1937 rhetoric. They say he says the nation is strong, but if it was
hometown burned to ashes. You are lucky to get a drop of African American Life). The NAACP didn?t just accomplish Administration, strong then there would not still be racial tension in
William H. America. African Americans suffered greatly during the
water or a hint of food. You pack up everything to travel, giving jobs back, but also stopped and helped the
Hastie,assistant Great Depression, but when they all stuck together and
and find something to survive, but when you seek aid the underfunding of black schools, youth leaders, and many
soup kitchens won?t let you in because you?re black. This more. A very important case was when the republican solicitor in the stood up for themselves they achieved many great things.
was what it felt like to be an African American during the president during the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, Department of the Mary McLeod -
Great Depression. nominated a man named John J. Parker who had many Interior, and Robert C. Bethune 1875-1955
anti-black views into the Supreme Court. If he got the vote Weaver who served as a
The Great depression was the worst economic special assistant to the
needed he could easily make African Americans lives a lot
downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting Administrator of the United States Housing Authority.
harder than it already was. The NAACP saw this and took
from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of These are just some important people in the Black Cabinet,
action immediately, they launched a campaign to defeat the
October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and but there are many more who have influenced African
nomination. The American Federation of labor saw this and
wiped out millions of investors. For African Americans the Americans forever.
joined the fight because of ?Parker?s decision barring the
great Depression worsened the economics situation even
unionization of coal miners in West Virginia.?(NAACP fight
more for them. They were the first to be laid off their jobs,
for freedom) With the American Federation of labor now on A March like no other
suffered an unemployment rate two to three times worse
the NAACP?s side they were able to defeat the nomination
than whites, and they didn?t even get as much aid as whites. It was 1917 when African Americans led a parade to
of John J. Parker with a vote of 41 to 39. In 1932 African
stop racial oppression, but whites saw this and were not
The Savior Americans largely supported the Democratic Franklin D.
happy they burned homes killed several hundreds. It as
Roosevelt and he won the race. This led to creation of the
Since, the African Americans had no jobs they called the bloody attack. ?James Weldon Johnson, the
black cabinet.
couldn?t get food, water or, supplies, nothing. Someone had second vice president of the NAACP, brought together other
to step up and lucky for them someone did. In 1929, the St. Times were changing civil rights leaders who gathered at St. Phillips Church in
Louis Urban League launched a national ?job for Negros?. New York to plan protest strategies.?(Newman) All the
Franklin D. Roosevelt was so grateful of this he The march down 5th avenue with black women
They accomplished this by boycotting in stores where blacks leaders of this agreed not to have a protest, but more of a
appointed an unprecedented number of African Americans and black children wearing white in the front,
usually were, but only hires white employees. ?Efforts to silent march would get the word through without violence.
and black men in black suits in the back.