US National Archives
Our Documents: National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
A site for reading all about the National Industrial Recovery Act and view the complete transcript of the original text.
New Deal Network
New Deal Network: Presidential Statement on n.i.r.a.
Text of a speech given by Franklin D. Roosevelt after he signed the bill known as the National Industrial Recovery Act. Discusses purposes and intended impact of the legislation.
Digital History
Digital History: National Recovery Administration
Resource provides an overview of the codes set by the National Recovery Administration that helped industry and labor in the 1930s and their positive and negative affects.
New Deal Network
New Deal Network: An Extemporaneous Address at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, Ny
Text of a speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt on the National Recovery Act and encouraging citizen involvement in government.
New Deal Network
New Deal Network: We Do Our Part But
Article that appeared in Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life in September 1933. Points out that the labor codes in the National Industrial Recovery Act would not cover black laborers.