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F___ D___ R_____ was stricken with polio in ____

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Franklin D. Roosevelt& 1921

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The New Deal’s “3 Rs” were R_____& R_____& and R_____

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Relief& Recovery& Reform

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Percentage of AA votes FDR gained from 1932 (70% Republican) to 1936?

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76% Democrat

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S_____ “C_____ E_____” Smith (SC) chaired key committees blocking civil rights bills.

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Ellison “Cotton Ed” Smith

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Number of anti-lynching bills filibustered between 1934-1937?

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2 (Costigan-Wagner& Gavagan)

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T_____ B_____ proposed deporting AAs to L_____ in 1935.

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Theodore Bilbo& Liberia

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P_____ v. F_____ (1896) still upheld segregation during FDR’s era.

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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Lynchings in 1933 alone?

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28

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C_____ N_____ was tortured and lynched in FL (1934) for a false accusation.

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Claude Neal

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Percentage of Senate votes needed to break filibusters that blocked anti-lynching bills?

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67% (2/3 majority)

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G_____ v. T_____ (1935) upheld all-white Democratic primaries until 1944.

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Grovey v. Townsend

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Number of Black voters in Louisiana after poll taxes: 130444 (1896) → ___ (1910).

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730

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M_____ ex rel. G_____ v. C_____ (1938) required equal graduate education.

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Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada

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Year FEPC was established after A. Philip Randolph’s protest threat?

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1941

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S_____ v. A_____ (1944) banned white primaries.

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Smith v. Allwright

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The S_____ S_____ A_____ excluded 65% of AA jobs by omitting f_____/d_____ workers.

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Social Security Act& farm/domestic

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Percentage of Black workers covered by the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act?

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Only 35% (excluded farm/domestic)

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C_____ H_____ and T_____ M_____ challenged unequal teacher salaries.

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Charles Houston& Thurgood Marshall

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Number of members in Alabama Sharecroppers Union by 1934?

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8

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A_____ P_____ R_____’s Brotherhood won union recognition in ____

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A. Philip Randolph& 1937

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Number of lynchings Ida B. Wells documented in Southern Horrors (1892)?

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728

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The B_____ of S_____ C_____ P_____ won union recognition in 1937 under A_____ P_____ R_____

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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters& A. Philip Randolph

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Percentage of Black youth served by NYA programs under Mary McLeod Bethune?

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20%

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Chicago’s Black vote for Democrats rose from 11% (1920) to __% (1936) due to WPA jobs.

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S_____ v. A_____ (1944) finally banned white primaries under the __ Amendment.
Smith v. Allwright& 15th
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M_____ M_____ B_____ directed NYA Negro Affairs.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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R_____ W_____ became first AA federal judge in ____
Robert Weaver& 1937
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The AAA displaced _____ AA sharecroppers (1933-1940).
200000
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Woofter Study (1936): AA sharecroppers earned_____
295& 417
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CCC was _____% Black by 1938.
11%
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The AAA paid farmers to reduce crop output& leading to _____ AA sharecropper evictions (1933-1940).
200000
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J_____ P_____ D_____ called the AAA "enforced poverty" for Black farmers.
John P. Davis
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Woofter Study (1936): White sharecroppers earned $_____ vs. AAs' $_____
417 vs 295
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The A_____ S_____ U_____ grew to 8000 members but faced violent repression.
Alabama Sharecroppers Union
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CCC wages: $/month (with $ sent to families).
30 vs 25
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R_____ F_____ (CCC Director) ordered all-_____ camps in 1935.
Robert Fechner& Black
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AAs called the NRA the "N_____ R_____ A_____."
Negro Removal Act
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PWA built _____% of AA schools in the South.
70%
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The NRA allowed regional wage gaps& e.g.& Black textile workers earned $/week vs. whites' $.
12 vs 13
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R_____ W_____ secured AA hiring quotas for PWA housing.
Robert Weaver
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WPA employed _____ AA workers annually (_____% of total workforce).
300000–350000 & 15%
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Federal W_____ P_____ employed authors like Richard Wright.
Writers’ Project
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Black supervisors in WPA: Only _____% in North& _____% in South.
5% & 0.1%
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S_____ S_____ A_____ excluded _____% of AA jobs.
Social Security Act & 65%
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Atlanta FERA payments: whites $/month vs. AAs' $.
32.66 vs 19.29
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FLSA (1938) excluded f_____ and d_____ workers.
farm& domestic
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The S_____ S_____ A_____ excluded farm/domestic workers (_____% of AA jobs).
Social Security Act& 65%
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C_____ H_____ said the Act was a "sieve" for AAs to fall through.
Charles Houston
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Mississippi relief payments: $/month vs. Massachusetts' $.
8 vs 61
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FERA paid Atlanta whites $/month vs. AAs' $.
32.66 vs 19.29
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The F_____ L_____ S_____ A_____ (1938) excluded farm/domestic workers.
Fair Labor Standards Act
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1935 H___ R___ led to more Black hires in relief offices.
Harlem Riot
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Eleanor convinced FDR to create the N_____ Y_____ A_____'s Black division in 1935.
National Youth Administration
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She privately pressured FDR to establish the F_____ E_____ P_____ C_____ in 1941.
Fair Employment Practices Committee
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Year Eleanor publicly endorsed anti-lynching legislation (despite FDR's silence)?
1938
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Number of press conferences Eleanor held with Black journalists (1933-1945)?
348
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She was the first First Lady to join the N_____ A_____ C_____ P_____ in 1932.
NAACP
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Total lynchings (1882-1932)?
4
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Percentage of Black income from New Deal programs by 1939?
35%

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