American Youth Congress Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
American Youth Congress was an organization composed of youth from all across the country to discuss the problems facing youth as a whole in the 1930's. It met several years in a row - one year it notably met on the lawn of the White House. The delagates are known to have caused a disturbance when they attempted to access the United States Congress. They focused on the draft, which was taking youths at age 18 off to war. At the time in the United States one was not legally an adult in any way until one was 21. They also focused on the economic exploitation of youth.
On July 4, 1936, they issued a Declaration of the Rights of American Youth, which addressed the issues, mainly the inalienable rights issues that affected youth and the economic issues. The Congress came under the patronage of Eleanor Roosevelt; however most people dismissed it as being part of the Communist Party, which was an powerful organization in those days. In 1940, despite Eleanor Roosevelt's publication of reasons called "Why I still believe in the Youth Congress," the American Youth Congress was disbanded.
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