The new deal and Race relations 1933-41 Key dates

1929

Great Depression

1932

Democrats gain power and had all seats in the house of representatives

1933

Agricultural adjustment Agency

1933-40

200 000 black sharecroppers evicted due to AAA

1934

Alabama Sharecroppers union reaches 8000 members

1933

Tennessee Valley Authority

1933

Civilian Conservation Corps

1942

CCC disbanded

1933

Public Works Administration

1944

PWA disbanded

1933

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

1935

FERA disbanded

1935

Social Security Act

1937

Nolan Breedlove failed at getting the supreme court to outlaw poll tax

1941

Executive order 8802

1945

Executive Order 8802 ended

1936

Roosevelt addresses an all black audience for the first time, acknowledging the importance if the black vote

1934

NAACP support Costigan and Wagner anti lynching bill. Not passed due to lack of presidential support and Southern Democrat filibuster

1934

violent lynching of Claude Neal (anti-lynching bill proposed as a result)

1938

Eleanor Roosevelt attends the Southern Conference for Human Welfare in Birmingham Alabama where she sits with black delegated despite attempts to enforce segregation laws. The conference declared support for equality before the law, voting registration for the poor and funding for black students.

1936

Eleanor Roosevelt invites black singer Marian Anderson to sing at the white house

1939

Marian Anderson was refused to sing by daughters of the American Resistance

1940

Eleanor Roosevelt promotes national sharecroppers week and the national committee to abolish poll tax

1930

19 major trade unions excluded black membership. It was estimated black union membership was 50 000 out of 3.4 million, half of which from the brotherhood of sleeping car porters

1937

GAvagan anti lynching bill defeated in the senate

1935

Due to Eleanor Roosevelt’s influence, Mary Mcleod Bethune was made special advisor of minority affairs

1936

Mary McLeod Bethune becomes chairperson of informal ‘black cabinet’