National Youth Administration

Examples of National Youth Administration in the following topics:

• Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Her efforts led to creating the National Youth Administration, which focused on providing work and education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 25 as part of the 1935 Work Progress Administration.
  • She was explicit in her support of civil rights for black Americans, did not hide her agenda from the often critical public eye, challenged her husband's political opponents and allies (especially racist white Southerners), and sought attention for the civil rights cause through relationships and close friendships with black leaders, most notably Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of the National Council of Negro Women, member of the Black Cabinet, and director of the Division of Negro Affairs at the National Youth Administration. and Walter White, the NAACP's executive secretary and anti-lynching legislation activist.
  • Reportedly, she also privately opposed the internment camps established by the Roosevelt administration.
  • In 1945, President Harry Truman appointed Eleanor to be a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly (an organization championed by her husband).
  • She was the chairperson of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and one of the key officials behind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

• The Second New Deal

  • In 1935, the Roosevelt administration unveiled legislation that would be known as the Second New Deal.
  • The National Labor Relations Act revived and strengthened the protections of collective bargaining in the original National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA).
  • The Act also established the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to facilitate wage agreements.
  • Roosevelt nationalized unemployment relief through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), headed by Harry Hopkins .
  • The National Youth Administration was a semi-autonomous WPA program for youth.

• Neglected Americans and the New Deal

  • The 1933 National Recovery Administration, the main First New Deal agency responsible for industrial recovery, had hardly anything to offer to African Americans as National Industrial Recovery Act's (NIRA) provisions covered the industries, from which black workers were usually excluded.
  • Under the provisions of the latter, the youth coming from the families that had at least one member working for WPA also received support that allowed them to continue high school or college education (program known as the National Youth Administration).  
  • Around 10% of the youth program beneficiaries were black.
  • Nationally, two sectors relied heavily on female labor force: agriculture and domestic service.
  • The 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act, the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, and the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act all excluded agricultural and domestic workers.

• The Great Society

  • the Job Corps, which held the purpose of helping disadvantaged youth develop marketable skills;
  • the Neighborhood Youth Corps, established to give poor urban youths work experience and encourage them to stay in school;
  • In 1964, the National Commission on the Humanities released a report arguing that the nation's emphasis on science endangered the study of the humanities.
  • In September of 1965, Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act, creating both the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
  • Many of its programs were dismantled by later Republican administrations.

• The Gifted

  • Gifted education programs are justified by a two-pronged argument: First, gifted and talented youth are not adequately challenged by the standard curriculum and therefore require accelerated curricula or enrichment activities to reach their full potential.
  • Second, gifted and talented youth are inherently at-risk.
  • According to the report, gifted youth are more likely than average to experience academic failure and to develop social and emotional problems.
  • The act imposes punishments on schools, administrators and teachers when students do not achieve to the plan's designs, but does not address any achievement standards for high functioning students.
  • These could include formal programs like Odyssey of the Mind or academic competitions like National History Day.

• The Retreat from Progressivism

  • The national political leaders included Theodore Roosevelt, Robert M.
  • Harding ran on a promise to "Return to Normalcy," a seldom-used term he popularized, and healing for the nation after World War I.
  • The strength of the progressive impulse helped both women and youth in the 1920s.
  • Paul Fass, speaking of youth, says "Progressivism as an angle of vision, as an optimistic approach to social problems, was very much alive. "
  • Describe the central components of the turn away from progressivism that characterized the Harding administration

• Organized Crime

  • Organized crime refers to transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals.
  • Organized crime refers to transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit.
  • A distinctive gang culture underpins many, but not all, organized groups; this may develop through recruiting strategies, social learning processes in the corrective system experienced by youth, family, or peer involvement in crime, and the coercive actions of criminal authority figures.
  • The term "street gang" is commonly used interchangeably with "youth gang", referring to neighborhood or street-based youth groups that meet "gang" criteria.

• The Debate over Preparedness

  • Emphasizing the weak state of national defenses, the leaders of the Preparedness Movement showed that America's army, even augmented by National Guardsmen, was outnumbered 20 to one by the German army, which was drawn from a smaller population.
  • For instance, suggestions that talented working class youths be invited to Plattsburg were ignored.
  • More subtly, the Democrats were rooted in localism that appreciated the work of the National Guard, and Democratic voters were hostile to the rich and powerful in the first place.
  • Congress passed the National Defense Act of 1916 in June, legislation that authorized an enormous increase in the size of the military.
  • In this, a long-term plan was created, one that would double the Army and increase the National Guard.

• "The War on Poverty"

  • The War on Poverty continued the plan of the Kennedy administration, with the goal of eliminating hunger and deprivation from American life.
  • The Kennedy Administration had been contemplating a federal effort against poverty.
  • the Job Corps, whose purpose was to help disadvantaged youth develop marketable skills
  • the Neighborhood Youth Corps, established to give poor urban youths work experience and to encourage them to stay in school
  • Job Corps continues to help 70,000 youths annually at 122 Job Corps centers throughout the country.

• Minorities and the New Deal

  • The 1941 Executive Order 8802 banned racial discrimination in the national defense industry.
  • The 1933 National Recovery Administration, the main First New Deal agency responsible for industrial recovery, had hardly anything to offer to African Americans as National Industrial Recovery Act's (NIRA) provisions covered the industries, from which black workers were usually excluded.
  • Black workers participated in all the major programs that created employment, including the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Public Works Administration, and the Works Progress Administration.  
  • Under the provisions of the latter, the youth coming from the families that had at least one member working for WPA also received support that allowed them to continue high school or college education.
  • The nation's oldest black collegiate fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, took on the case of Pearson v.