The "Black Cabinet" was a term used to describe
a. activists who met at the home of Mary McLeod Bethune to discuss civil rights strategies.
b. the huge influence that Harry Hopkins and Harold Ickes had on FDR's decision-making.
c. Supreme Court members who ruled that New Deal reforms were unconstitutional.
d. labor leaders who argued their positions by lobbying for the attention of Eleanor Roosevelt.
ANS: a
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