Many historians distinguish between a First New Deal (1933–1934) and a Second New Deal (1935–1936), with the second one more liberal and more controversial. The First New Deal (1933–1934) dealt with the pressing banking crises through the Emergency Banking Act and the 1933 Banking Act.
She was a women's suffrage activist. She also had an anti-lynching campaign and worked against segregation. She first began by challenging the exclusion of black people from the Chicago World's Fair
