“I have gathered my tools and my charts… I shall roll up my sleeves – make America over!”
“This was the motto to which the young folk began their work, nearly a thousand of them, which may be grouped for study purposes under the generic title, ‘Junior Brain Trusters’. They were, for the most part, young men from the colleges and universities of the larger eastern cities…. Many of them came as protégés of the Senior Brain Trusters themselves, brought from the classrooms by [Guy] Tugwell, [Raymond Charles] Moley, [Felix] Frankfurter – Professor Frankfurter being especially successful in drafting students and recent graduates from the Harvard Law School.”
The group that advised FDR on all matters involving the African-American community was popularly known as “the Black Brain Trust”…
More on FDR’s “Brain Trust” can be read here.
