The New Deal Network is an online educational guide to the Roosevelt Administration and the Great Depression of the 1930s. The New Deal Network is sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia University.

The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl.

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This is just a little something something that Suavcito's has prepared on the history of the zoot suit riots.

Tribue to the Crew of a B25 Bomber that crashed near Bedford VA in 1943, Recent pictures of crash scene, Goverment Report, History, Newspaper articles ...

Fifty years ago, Ray Sprigle of the Post-Gazette posed as a black man to experience firsthand what life was like for 10 million people living under the system of legal segregation known as Jim Crow. As he wrote in his 21-part series, I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days : I quit being white, and free, and an American citizen when I climbed aboard that Jim Crow coach. . . . From then on, ...

Pages commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan ...

INTRODUCTION The Sleepy Lagoon Murder case began on August 2, 1942, when the body of Jose Diaz was found at a reservoir in southeast Los Angeles. Press hysteria and bigotry fueled the arrest of 300 Mexican American youths and guided a corrupt trial in which the judge and prosecutors displayed routine disregard for fundamental civil rights. Despite a complete lack of evidence, including no proof ...

ZOOT SUIT The culture and language of Mexican immigrants labeled them as outsiders by the dominant society (Dieppa, 7). Most of the new arrivals respected the boundaries that existed, but the second generation found them hard to abide. Attracted by the downtown shopping districts, beaches, and glamour of Hollywood, many of the members of the second generation broke the unwritten rules that ...

Coupons and Counterfeits: World War II and the U.S. Black Market Garrett Moritz Where any important article becomes scarce, rationing is the democratic, equitable solution. Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 27, 1942 When my grandchildren ever ask me what I did during the Great War, I m going to tell them it was too horrible to talk about. OPA official, December 1944 During the second world war, ...

Zoot Suit Riots (check out the cool fashions link...) This document contains articles from the following sources: Los Angeles Times, June 2, 1943 New York Times, June 7, 1943 Los Angeles Times, June 9, 1943 La Opinion June 9, 1943 ( Spanish language newspaper from LA) New York Times, June 10, 1943 Excelsior, June 10, 1943 (Spanish language paper from Mexico City) New York Times, June 11, 1943 ...

People & Events Detroit Race Riots 1943 As the nation's most important production center during the Second World War, the city of Detroit was popularly known as the arsenal of democracy. The city's overwhelmingly industrial landscape had been rapidly expanding since the manufacturing boom of the post-Civil War era. Yet its industrial prosperity masked underlying and deeply-rooted racial ...

REMEMBERING THE MAN AND HIS PLAN JUNE 5, 1997 TRANSCRIPT Fifty years ago this week, George Marshall delivered a commencement address at Harvard University which proved to be the spark that rebuilt Europe. Following a look at the life of the general, the NewsHour historians, joined by the the editor of Marshall's papers, discuss Marshall's life and legacy. A RealAudio version of this NewsHour ...