Documents of the Great Depression

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• Afternoon in a Pushcart Peddlers' Colony

• Begging

• Hoovervilles - Photograph Collage

• Letter to President Roosevelt

• Recovery

• We Protest - Photograph Collage

• WPA Road

• The Dust Bowl - Photograph Collage

• I'd Rather Not Be on Relief - Song Lyrics

• Life in the Camps - Photograph Collage

• On the Road - Photograph Collage

• Roll Out the Pickets - Song Lyrics

• Songs of the Okies - Radio Script

• Trampling Out the Vintage

• An African American (Eugenia Martin) and the WPA

• "Alphabet Soup"--Photograph Collage

• Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) Unionism

• Disagreeing With the New Deal

• The New Deal Was a Failure

• Roosevelt Is a "Damned Good Man"

• The Works Progress Administration

• Bill Knox Advises Young Workers About Unions

• A Georgia Automobile Worker and His Family

• Savage Blames Labor Unions for the Great Depression

• Songs and Yells of Steel Workers

• An Elevator Strike

• Jim Cole, African American Packinghouse Worker

• A Mexican American Laborer and Labor Organizer

• A Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt

• Amateur Night in Harlem

• Ballad of Booker T.

• Discrimination at Home and Work

• Folklore of the South

• Photographic Evidence of Racial Segregation

• Three Generations - White and Black

Additional documents:

New Deal Network Document Library
http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/authors.htm
900 documents organized by author and subject

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