The New Deal helped African Americans and Native Americans, they both got their own leaders, which included John Collier for Indian affairs creating jobs, then Mary McLeod Bethune for FDR’s black cabinet, which gave African Americans a say on there own issues. Even though they both were discriminated against they were giving opportunities. For example when the Daughters of the American Revolution wouldn’t let Marian Anderson perform Eleanor Roosevelt made it possible for her to sing at the Lincoln Memorial, this showed there struggle for civil rights. For Native Americans a law had been passed in 1924 stating all Native Americans are United States Citizens, they also continued to have them on reserved reservations keeping their land protected.
