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A confidant and associate of Eleanor Roosevelt, Bethune has been credited by many with advancing the first lady's stand on civil rights. In 1935 Bethune was appointed to the National Advisory Committee of the National Youth Administration (NYA), a New Deal agency responsible for helping young people stay in school or find work. By 1939 Bethune had become director of Negro affairs for the NYA. Bethune was instrumental in getting the NYA to extend its benefits to African Americans, and she was instrumental in the hiring of many blacks for government positions at both federal and state levels. Under her leadership more than 150,000 African American teenagers went to high school; 60,000 went on to college. She was also instrumental in organizing and focusing the efforts of the Federal Council on Negro Affairs, the so-called "black cabinet" that pressured the Roosevelt administration to improve civil rights. She praised President Roosevelt's...
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