The minorities were given new opportunities with work and education. African Americans at first didn’t get much help, but it soon started to change, “The President began to name African Americans to important posts. Roosevelt appointed Bethune to head an important government office in 1935. Bethune's job was to make sure money intended for African American students actually reached them” (teacherweb.edu, The New Deal). African Americans were given chances to go to school and get an education and many held jobs either in the government or given by the government. President Roosevelt wasn’t able to stop discrimination, but he was able to start moving towards that goal. Eastern and Western Europeans were able to hold jobs and find work while President Roosevelt was in office. Eleanor Roosevelt was a huge women’s rights supporter, and so she made sure that women were able to work, “Thousands of women were appointed to jobs in the government, many running the New Deal programs. The president's wife, Eleanor encouraged, this, and if I may say so , probably encouraged the president to hire qualified women” (teacherweb.edu, The New Deal). Eleanor wanted the world to see that women were able to do more than just stay at home, have kids, and clean and cook. She wanted women to have a chance to live their lives with adventure and prosperity. The New Deal also helped Latinos. New Mexico’s Senator, …show more content…
President Roosevelt didn’t want that, and the New Deal started to help, “By 1939, the New Deal had run its course. In the short term, New Deal programs helped improve the lives of people suffering from the events of the depression. In the long run, New Deal programs set a precedent for the federal government to play a key role in the economic and social affairs of the nation” (www.loc.gov, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1933-1945). Roosevelt wanted the government to be a part of the lives of the people. He wanted to be able to know what was going on in communities and how people were doing financially. President Roosevelt wanted to change the way that the government acted for its country. He started off by including the excluded, “However, for many Americans in the 1930’s, Roosevelt was the president who included in his policies the people who had felt excluded by politics once the Depression had taken its hold. Now the excluded were the included” (www.historylearningsite.co.uk, Was the New Deal a Success). Many people during the start of the Great Depression were not included in the process of government. FDR wanted to change that by including everyone. He wanted everyone to come together as a nation and make decisions that needed to be made. The New Deal was able to do this for him. FDR also closed the gap on who was rich and who was poor, “The New Deal made the government take