The Black Cabinet was first known as the Office of Negro Affairs, an informal group of African American public policy advisors to United States PresidentFranklin Delano Roosevelt. By mid-1935 there were 45 African Americans working in federal executive departments and New Deal agencies. Two of its more prominent members were Ralph Bunche and Mary Jane McLeod Bethune. An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black), is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... The President of the United States (often abbreviated POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882–April 12, 1945), 32nd President of the United States, the longest-serving holder of the office and the only man to be elected President more than twice, was one of the central figures of 20th century history. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The United States Federal Executive Departments are among the oldest primary units of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States—the Departments of State, War, and the Treasury all being established within a few weeks of each other in 1789. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: New Deal The New Deal is the name given to the series of programs implemented under president Franklin Delano Roosevelt with the goal of stabilizing, reforming and stimulating the United States economy during the Great Depression. ... Ralph Bunche, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1951 Ralph Johnson Bunche (August 7, 1904 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation in Palestine in the late 1940s that led to an armistice agreement between the Jews and... Mary McLeod Bethune For the wife of John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, see Mary Bethune Abbott Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875–May 18, 1955), born to former slaves a decade after the end of the American Civil War, devoted her life to ensuring the right to education and freedom...
Cabinet meeting on May 16, 2001. ... The Kitchen Cabinet was an informal group of unofficial advisers that U.S. President Andrew Jackson consulted in place of his official Cabinet. ...
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