The "champion of the dispossessed"—that is, the poor and minorities—in the 1930s was

a. Harold Ickes.
b. Alfred E. Smith.
c. Eleanor Roosevelt.
d. Frances Perkins.
e. Harry Hopkins.


Ans: c. Eleanor Roosevelt.

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