Black Cabinet

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The Black Cabinet was first known as the Office of Negro Affairs, an informal group of African American public policy advisors to United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. By mid-1935 there were 45 African Americans working in federal executive departments and New Deal agencies. Three of its more prominent members were Ralph Bunche, Mary Jane McLeod Bethune and Truman K Gibson Jr.

[edit] See also

• United States Cabinet
• Knocking Down Barriers: Fighting for Black America by Truman K Gibson Jr. and Steve Huntley, Northwestern 2005. ISBN 0-8101-2292-8

[edit] External links

• Reflections on Black History Part 83
• American National Biography Online: Mary Jane McLeod Bethune, a member of the Black Cabinet