During 1933, at the height of the Great Depression as FDR was creating the New Deal, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited Scott's Run, quietly entering households, including Lou Birurakis' mother's, and even going into the mines. After seeing the area's abject poverty, she lobbied for Scott's Run residents to be relocated to Arthurdale, the first planned homestead community. Although she wanted all of them to go, politics in Washington, DC, and resistance from neighbors in Preston County limited who was accepted. An 18-page test was created that effectively screened out black and foreign-born families from Scott's Run. This troubled Eleanor Roosevelt, who was a member of the NAACP and a friend of Mary McLeod Bethune, one of FDR's "black cabinet" advisors. Though she could not bring all the people to Arthurdale whom she wanted to help, she spent the rest of her life fighting for Civil Rights, a legacy that still endears her to the Scott's Run community.