nited States 11). All these improvements for blacks can partially be credited to the Black Cabinet, a group of blacks that advised Roosevelt onthe problems of African Americans. This cabinet included William H. Hastie and Mary McLeod Bethune. All of these improvements caused a loyalty to the Democratic Party by the blacks (African Americans 4). Not only was President Roosevelt involved for the rights of blacks, yet so was his wife, the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. In inviting the National Council of Negro Women to have tea with her at the WhiteHouse, she showed her hatred for segregation and racism. However, her most well-known incident was in 1939, when the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let singer Marian Anderson sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. Not only did Mrs. Roosevelt publicly resign from this group, Harold L. Ickes, the secretary of the interior, invited Anderson to give a concert on the steps of theLincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday. This showed America that the government no longer supported segregation (Segregation in the United States 11). Today, we are lucky to be such a diverse and multi-cultural society, and it is felt by many that we are also an accepting society. In today's society, blacks marry whites, Asians marry whites and in VT, women marry women and men marry men. Blacks are CEO's and politicians inhigh places. We all go to the same schools, use the same bathrooms and drink from the same water fountain. Although, unfortunately, there are those who still believe that blacks are not equal to whites, the majority of our society believes that we are all equal, all able to achieve the same goal or the same quality of life. And it is becauseof our changed America that we are all able to do this. The laws of the United States tell us that we are all equal and that we all have the same consequences for our actions. Most of these laws were the same in the thirties. However, today we hav...
