Eras: 1929–1941

Race and Civil Rights
1929–1941

Along This Way

Source: James Weldon Johnson, Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson (New York: Viking Press, 1961; originally published 1933), 409–13. Excerpt(s) from Along this Way by James Weldon

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1929–1941

Along This Way

Source: James Weldon Johnson, Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson (New York: Da Capo Press, 2000), 311–313, 317–318, 319–321. Copyright 1933 by James Weldon Johnson; copyright renewed

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1929–1941

Near v. Minnesota

Source: 283 U.S. 697, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/283/697. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court. Chapter 285 of the Session Laws of Minnesota for the year 1925 provides for the abatement,

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1929–1941

The Philosophy of the Declaration in the Nineteenth Century

Source: Carl L. Becker, The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922), 273–79, available at The Online Library of Liberty: https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/becker-the-declaration-of-independence-a-study-on-the-history-of-political-ideas.

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1929–1941

The Crisis in Liberalism

Source: John Dewey, Liberalism and Social Action (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1935), 37–61, available online at https://archive.org/details/dewey_liberalism/page/n4/mode/2up. We have omitted the author’s footnotes. . . . . The

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1929–1941

United States v. Belmont

Source: 301 U.S. 324; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/301/324 Justice SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Chief Justice HUGHES and Justices VAN DEVANTER, McREYNOLDS, ROBERTS, and BUTLER. This is an action

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1929–1941

Wickard v. Filburn

Source: 317 U.S. 111; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/317/111 Justice JACKSON delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court, joined by Chief Justice STONE and Justices ROBERTS, BLACK, REED, FRANKFURTER, DOUGLAS, MURPHY, AND BYRNES. .

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1929–1941

Fireside Chat on Primaries

. . . And now following out this line of thought, I want to say a few words about the coming political primaries. Fifty years ago party nominations were generally

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