Mary McLeod Bethune was part of this president’s informal “Black cabinet.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this president whose Executive Order 9066 targeted Americans of Japanese ancestry.
ANSWER: Franklin Delano Roosevelt [or FDR; prompt on Roosevelt]
[10h] Another member of FDR’s “Black cabinet,” Robert C. Weaver, became the first African American to hold an official cabinet post when Lyndon Johnson made him head of this Great Society agency. This agency’s HOPE VI program adhered to the idea of defensible space.
ANSWER: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development [or HUD]
[10m] Edgar G. Brown agitated for better treatment of Black people in this New Deal agency headed by Robert Fechner. This agency’s cadre of young workers built numerous fire lookout towers and dams.
ANSWER: Civilian Conservation Corps [or CCC]
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