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The Great Depression


Primary Source Documents


Recommended Document:

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address, 1933
http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/62.htm



Related Documents:

Afternoon in a Pushcart Peddlers' Colony

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/depress/peddlers.html

Begging
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/depress/begging.html

Hoovervilles - Photograph Collage
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/depress/hoovers.html

Letter to President Roosevelt
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/depress/letter.html

Recovery
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/depress/recovery.html

We Protest - Photograph Collage
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/depress/protest.html

WPA Road
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/depress/wparoad.html

The Dust Bowl - Photograph Collage
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/dustbowl/dbphotos.html

I'd Rather Not Be on Relief - Song Lyrics
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/dustbowl/onrelief.html

Life in the Camps - Photograph Collage
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/dustbowl/camps.html

On the Road - Photograph Collage
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/dustbowl/onroad.html

Roll Out the Pickets - Song Lyrics
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/dustbowl/rollout.html

Songs of the Okies - Radio Script
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/dustbowl/songokie.html

Trampling Out the Vintage
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/dustbowl/vintage.html

An African American (Eugenia Martin) and the WPA
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/newdeal/martin.html

"Alphabet Soup"--Photograph Collage
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/newdeal/alphabet.html

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) Unionism
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/newdeal/ciounion.html

Disagreeing With the New Deal
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/newdeal/disagree.html

The New Deal Was a Failure
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/newdeal/failure.html

Roosevelt Is a "Damned Good Man"
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/newdeal/goodman.html

The Works Progress Administration
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/newdeal/thewpa.html

Bill Knox Advises Young Workers About Unions
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/unions/knox.html

A Georgia Automobile Worker and His Family
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/unions/gaauto.html

Savage Blames Labor Unions for the Great Depression
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/unions/blame.html

Songs and Yells of Steel Workers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/unions/labsongs.html

An Elevator Strike
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/unions/elstrike.html

Jim Cole, African American Packinghouse Worker
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/unions/jimcole.html

A Mexican American Laborer and Labor Organizer
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/unions/jperez.html

A Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/race/letter.html

Amateur Night in Harlem
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/race/amateur.htm

Ballad of Booker T.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/race/ballad.html

Discrimination at Home and Work
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/race/homework.html

Folklore of the South
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/race/lore.html

Photographic Evidence of Racial Segregation
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/race/evidence.html

Three Generations - White and Black
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/ depwwii/race/threegen.html





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