What was the impact of the New Deal?

1 What was the impact of the New Deal? What are some of the specific things that were built during the New Deal in NYC?
2 What was the purpose of the New Deal?
3 Who were the three critical individuals connected to the New Deal in NYC according to the article (two in NYC and one in Washington DC)?
4 What sort of relationship did the New Deal envision existing between the federal government and the cities and states?
5 Have you ever personally been to any of the buildings, parks, or other things that were built by the New Deal? You can see examples if you click here.
1 What federal program provided a job for Neel and other artists?
2 What political party did Neel join in the 1930s?
3 How did the depression impact what many artists who were on the left in terms of what they painted and wrote about?
4 What were many of her paintings in the 1930s about? What inspired and interested her?
Watch doc on experience of Black New Yorkers during the great depression and New Deal period.
1 How did Black New Yorkers fare during the great depression and the New Deal?
2 Did LaGuardia seem as concerned about the as white workers?
3 What impact did federal housing policy have on Black New Yorkers?
Post WWII NYC
The city emerged from WWII as an enormously powerful city and city where many of its working-class population began to move into the middle class. However beneath the surface, troubling economic structural trends began to appear. Also the city’s robust leftwing/liberal politics connected to unions, activist groups, and political groups like the American Labor Party (ALP) came under attack with the arrival of the red scare.
documentary that deals with NYC in the 1950s.
1 What was the new urban model that urban planners developed after WWII in NYC and other cities What form of transportation did it see as key?
2 What new immigrant group began to come to NYC in large numbers after WWII? What was their experience like here?
3 Why does the documentary see Robert Moses as so important in this period? What are some of Moses accomplishments? What were some of the problems with Moses in terms of what he did?
4 What was Title I of the Federal Housing Act? What did it do to poor communities of color?
5 What is suburbanization, what changes happened to the city’s port, and what is deindustrialization and what impact did they have on NYC?
6 What happened to the neighborhood of East Tremont in the Bronx in the 1950s?
Short article about the impact of the red scare on NYC https://www.legacy.com/news/zero-mostel-are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been/.
1 Who was Zero Mostel and what happened to him?

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