By Paige Arcand, Helena Kurpaska, and Isabel Stasko

MAJOR FIGURES

Shirley Temple• Started acting at the age of three years old• First big role was from 1932-1933 • Had a contract with Twentieth Century-Fox • Break out role was in Stand up and Cheer where she captured hearts singing

“Baby, Take a Bow”• Earned a Oscar for her contribution to Entertainment• Danced along side Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Buddy Ebsen, and many others• Many young girls tried to mimic her curls, and even got a drink named after her• After Twentieth Century dumped her, she moved onto Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer• She got supporting roles in her teens• Peoples love for her waned when she started getting into her teen years

STARS OF THE AGE

Eleanor Roosevelt • Husband became President in 1933• Provided food for the Bonus Army of unemployed veterans• Made a campaign that helped with unhealthy alley dwellings, and eliminate

decrepit• Her first year as first lady, she wrote a monthly column for a magazine called

the Women's Home Companion• She spoke against sweatshops and even defended the low-cost housing,

minimum wage, women’s jobs, old-age pensions, and equal pay for equal work• Traveled all around the nation in support of the un- and underemployed • Supported labor rights and women's rights, she for equal rights for African

Americans and spoke at labor meetings• Roosevelt began publishing a column in a newspaper in 1936 that she called

My Day • Visited U.S. combat troops• Was still active in politics until she died in 1962

INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE

Franklin Delano Roosevelt• President from 1933-1945• Three re-elections• Took care of the nation when they were on the edge of an economic collapse• Declared a bank holiday so the Treasury could examine the bank’s book’s• Had fire side chats with the country about how the country was doing

economically• Suggested the name for the united nations which was a alliance• Had many strategies for the war and how he was going to try to win

INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE

Bessie Smith• Was very successful before the stock market crash• During the depression, she was booked less and less making her a little more

unpopular• She never gave up, so during the depression she reinvented herself and her

performances• After being reinvented, she wowed her New York audiences• She was a very successful artist for Columbia records • Was dropped in 1931 because her label thought that people wouldn’t want to buy

her singing popular standards• Was a very big influential for the music business• Many people thought because she was African American, that she would do as

well as she did

AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERS

Great Northern Migration • A demographic shift were many African Americans moved from the southern

states to the northern and Midwestern states• The total of the net migration was about 1.1 million+ during the migration• About 2 million African Americans left the south• Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New York were the most popular states• States that lost the most were Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia and South

Carolina • It took about 50 years for African Americans to leave in larger quantities because

they were the subject of debate among many historians and social scientists• Since many workers that left worked in agriculture, there were a few bad years

for crops• Industries only really hired the immigrants during strikes because the other

workers were protesting• The Great Migration ended with the Great Depression• Since the increase of poverty, many migrators found the north less desirable

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