Examines FDR's informal "black
cabinet," the people who served in it, and its importance to
national culture. New Deal reforms
& black support. Black leaders who advised FDR. The President's motive in using black advisers: to use their ideas to remedy racism & to rely on their opinion on a wide number of other issues. Diversity of "black
cabinet." Contribution of educator Mary McLeon Bethune & others. Gains made by the NAACP,
National Urban League & National Council of Negro Women as a legacy of the "black cabinet."