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New Deal: Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: The Nya
A brief description of how Eleanor Roosevelt helped to establish the National Youth Administration her reasons behind it.
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New Deal Network: Great Depression and the Arts
Part of a wonderful website devoted to researching and teaching the Great Depression and the New Deal. These pages are focused specifically on the arts during this time.
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Ndn: Works Progress Administration: Hot Lunches for a Million School Children
An original speech made by Ellen S. Woodward addressing impoverished children and how the Works Progress Administration is able to help them.
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New Deal Network: Ccc Memories: Dominick Gadamowitz Joins the c.c.c.
Illustrated oral history of Dominick Gadamowitz, interviewed by his grandson about his experiences in the C.C.C. Includes general commentary about the CCC. Excellent primary source material.
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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.
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New Deal Network: Big Steel, Little Steel, and c.i.o.
An article from the July 31, 1937 edition from The Nation magazine discussing the relationship between Big Steel, Little Steel, and the Committee of Industrial Organization (CIO). Written with a great deal of irony.
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New Deal Network: The Nation: It's War in Youngstown
A contemporary article from the magazine, The Nation, which describes the steel strike in Youngstown, Ohio, in June 1937. Read about the background of the strike, and follow the author's ordeal as she was arrested, despite her press...
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New Deal Network: Construction of the Dam
An enlargeable image of "Construction of the Dam" by WPA artist William Gropper may be viewed here.
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New Deal: Works of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Essentials for Unemployment Relief
Text of a speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Congress, March 21, 1933, outlining a program of public employment at the federal and state levels to provide unemployment relief.
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New Deal Network: Photo Gallery: Soup Kitchens and Breadlines
Several photographs from the Great Depression depicting people standing in breadlines and at soup kitchens.
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New Deal Network: Harry Hopkins
Brief biography on Harry Hopkins, advisor to FDR during his presidency and appointed head of the Works Projects Administration.