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Yet a closer look at his early political career, particularly his stint as state director for the National Youth Administration (NYA) in Texas, suggests a deeper commitment to civil rights than this simple narrative of personal and political evolution would indicate.

He worked his way through Ohio State University selling flowers, playing trombone in a National Youth Administration band, selling magazines, renting bicycles and peddling razor blades.

Roosevelt's New Deal as the director of the Office of Minority Affairs in the National Youth Administration.

In 1935, Congress established the National Youth Administration to help homeless teens find work.

Among this group were Interior Secretary Harold Ickes and his aide Clark Foreman, National Youth Administration director Aubrey Williams, the head of the NYA's Office of Negro Affairs Mary McLeod Bethune, organizers of the anti-poll tax campaign Virginia Durr and Palmer Weber, the black activist and businessman from South Carolina Osceola McKaine, and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

In 1937 the park board transferred the project to the National Youth Administration (NYA), a branch of the WPA.

Hence, scholarships from the National Youth Administration were used to "secure the expansion and advancement of the educated class," not to alter the position of the black working class (p.

In 1935, Congress established the National Youth Administration, which gave high school students jobs as clerks, janitors, and gardeners for up to $6 a month.