NYA (National Youth Administration)

• What does NYA stand for?


  National Youth Administration
• Who was a black American influential in her actions with the NYA?

  Mary McLeod Bethune
• What did Mary Bethune establish?

  The National Council of Negro Women
• What did the National Council of Negro Women aim to do?

  Voice the black concerns to the New Deal leader
• What was Mary Bethune's involvement with the NYA?

  She lobbied them to give greater aid to black Americans and was appointed to work for the agency
• What were the two main features of the NYA?

  Construction programmes and Educational programmes
• When was Mary Bethune made part of the NYA?

  1938
• What was Bethune's role in the NYA?

  She was Director of the Division of Negro Affairs
• How did Mary Bethune increase black representation in the NYA?

  She convinced Texas NYA state administration Lyndon Johnson to increase the number of black youths in the NYA
• How long did Bethune work in the NYA?

  Until its demise in 1943
• How many black Americans did the NYA assist?

  Half a million (500,000) black Americans
• Why was the NYA progressive, but not fully?

  It was exceptionally fair in its distribution of money but also accepted segregation
• What were black scholars able to get into the New Deal's state guidebooks?

  Black history and contemporary living conditions
• How did black singers promote black issues?

  Songs of slavery and hardship were recorded for prosperity
• What did black authors benefit from?

  The Federal Writers Project
• Who was the director of the NYA?

  Aubrey Williams
• How many African American youths did the NYA help?

  More than 300,000