Roosevelt's New Deal
Intro
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’ s presidency came at a time when previous presidents, namely Herbert Hoover, adopted a laissez-faire approach which resulted in the American economy collapsing. So when Roosevelt came in he was expected to have a different approach, which he tried to initiate by introducing the new deal, which while it could be argued resulted in more jobs and greatly improving the economy especially in agriculture, it could also be argued that it did not do enough to improve the lives of African Americans and no laws were passed for the benefit of African Americans. Some historians have even argued that the new deal was not the saving grace which brought the American economy back from collapse. With professor Thomas DiLorenzo …show more content…
Eleanor Roosevelt had a massive influence on the lives of African Americans and was a massive voice for equality, with her views reaching millions of people from speeches and from her newspaper articles.
Economic
It could be argued that the new deal had a significant impact on the lives of African Americans as it set up a number of agencies such as the “Farm Security Administration” and the “national youth administration” with the Works Americans annually, about 15% of its total workforce” being one of the most prominent, which aimed at supporting unemployed …show more content…
This meant that he had to avoid antagonizing the southern democrats in order to gain their support, this can be shown by the fact that in 1938 more liberal congressmen tried to pass an anti lynching law Roosevelt refused to give his support to the bill saying that he “can't take (the) risk." Of supporting the anti lynching bill as even though it may be the right thing to do ethnically for society as a whole, its not the right thing to do economically as America was coming out of the great depression and needed the measure put forward by the new deal in order to get the country back on track to becoming a world super power. Some historians may argue that he said this in order to keep the black vote on his side, as Walter white was the president of the NAACP so he had massive influence amongst the African American community. So he was really trying to appease White. However while he couldn’t politically go for the anti lynching bill he was the first president to call lynching a “form of collective murder” which shows that although it could have been argued that he was trying to defuse the situation with Walter White by saying that he wanted pass an anti lynching law but couldn’t, and proves that he did actually believe that lynching
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’ s presidency came at a time when previous presidents, namely Herbert Hoover, adopted a laissez-faire approach which resulted in the American economy collapsing. So when Roosevelt came in he was expected to have a different approach, which he tried to initiate by introducing the new deal, which while it could be argued resulted in more jobs and greatly improving the economy especially in agriculture, it could also be argued that it did not do enough to improve the lives of African Americans and no laws were passed for the benefit of African Americans. Some historians have even argued that the new deal was not the saving grace which brought the American economy back from collapse. With professor Thomas DiLorenzo …show more content…
Eleanor Roosevelt had a massive influence on the lives of African Americans and was a massive voice for equality, with her views reaching millions of people from speeches and from her newspaper articles.
Economic
It could be argued that the new deal had a significant impact on the lives of African Americans as it set up a number of agencies such as the “Farm Security Administration” and the “national youth administration” with the Works Americans annually, about 15% of its total workforce” being one of the most prominent, which aimed at supporting unemployed …show more content…
This meant that he had to avoid antagonizing the southern democrats in order to gain their support, this can be shown by the fact that in 1938 more liberal congressmen tried to pass an anti lynching law Roosevelt refused to give his support to the bill saying that he “can't take (the) risk." Of supporting the anti lynching bill as even though it may be the right thing to do ethnically for society as a whole, its not the right thing to do economically as America was coming out of the great depression and needed the measure put forward by the new deal in order to get the country back on track to becoming a world super power. Some historians may argue that he said this in order to keep the black vote on his side, as Walter white was the president of the NAACP so he had massive influence amongst the African American community. So he was really trying to appease White. However while he couldn’t politically go for the anti lynching bill he was the first president to call lynching a “form of collective murder” which shows that although it could have been argued that he was trying to defuse the situation with Walter White by saying that he wanted pass an anti lynching law but couldn’t, and proves that he did actually believe that lynching