Gains

• Robert Weaver

  Special Advisor on the Economic Status of N in 1934 and later in the head of Public Works Administration

  His appointment led to grants to $45 million - to build schools, hospitals and homes
• AA benefitted from poor relief and job creation projects by the Federal Emergency Administration 1933-35

  1/4 million AA were given literacy help via federal support
• Farm Security Administration

  Gave help to southern AA who were hit hard by drop in food and raw materials after 1929
• Roosevelt spoke out against lynchings , no law passed against them

  New appointments of AA to New Deal offices