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[[image - black and white group photograph of members of Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet"]]
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[[caption]] Negroes in Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet" were all highly competent specialists in various fields. In 1938 the group included (front row, left to right) Dr. Ambrose Caliver, Department of the Interior; Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Public Health Service; Dr. Robert C. Weaver, Housing Authority; Joseph H. Evans, Farm Security Administration; Dr. Frank Horne (the poet), Housing Administration; Mary McLeod Bethune, National Youth Administration; Lieutenant Lawrence A. Oxley, Department of Labor; Dr. William J. Thompkins, Recorder of Deeds; Charles E. Hall, Department of Commerce; William I. Houston, Department of Justice; Ralph E. Mizelle, Post Office. 

In the back row, (left to right) are Dewey R. Jones, Department of the Interior; Edgar Brown (tennis star), Civilian Conservation Corps; J. Parker Prescott, Housing Authority; Edward H. Lawson, Jr., Works Projects Administration; Arthur Weiseger, Department of Labor; Alfred Edgar Smith, Works Projects; Henry A. Hunt, Farm Credit Administration; John W. Whitten, Works Projects; and Joseph R. Houchins, Department of Commerce. Others included at various times William H. Hastie, attorney, Department of the Interior; Eugene Kinckle Jones, Department of Commerce; and William J. Trent, Federal Works Agency. [[/caption]]

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