Eras: 1929–1941

1929–1941

Speech on Social Security

Source: Congressional Record, 74th Cong., 1st sess., Vol. 79, pt. 6, pp. 6060-6061. . . . I realize perfectly well that this bill is going to pass the House of

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1929–1941

Black Cotton Farmers and the AAA

Source: Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 13:3 (March 1935), p. 72. Available at http://newdeal.feri.org/opp/opp3572.htm. The avowed aim of the new deal is to enhance the well being of the

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1929–1941

The Right to Strike

Source: The Nation, 137: 3566 (November 8, 1933) p. 530 – 531. Nearly a million American workers have gone out on strike since the New Deal began. Probably as many

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1929–1941

Speech to Congress on Foreign Trade

LC-USZC4-4244Source: “Message to Congress Requesting Authority Regarding Foreign Trade,” March 2, 1934. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=14817. I am requesting the Congress

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1929–1941

Black Labor and the Codes

Source: Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 11:8 (August 1933), p. 231. If there were those who supposed for a moment that the identity of interests of black and white

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