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Herbert Hoover's domestic side of his presidency involved several attempts to bring a end to racial discrimination, prision reforms, recognized Indian's rights and reform the Indian policy, carrying out the Agricultural Marketing Act, and many other public works (like the San Fransico Bay Bridge).
Herbert did not simply denounce racial discrimination and lynching publicly, he stepped out and invited several "blacks" to the White House. His wife, Lou Henry, invited Mrs. de Priest (an African American women, wife of an African American congressman) to tea at the White House. Herbert's first pardon was for an African American accused of murder. He also helped create a foundation for people to fight for black sharecroppers and tenants to recieve the ability to buy the land they worked on, just as a white man would.
His prision reforms compsed making new work camps and other such establishments to help solve the problem of overcrowding. Also the education and health benefits were improved for the prisioners.
The education and health benefits for the American Indians were also inproved after Herbert wisely put Charles J. Rhoads and J. Henry Scattergood over the Indian Bureau.
Some of Herberts other projects include: the Hoover Dam, St. Lawrence Waterway, the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the Grand Coulee Dam, and others.
Herbert Hoover is also known for the appiontment of Benjamin Cardozo, a Jew, in Supreme Court.