The New Deal Map
14: Depression and New Deal
Thanksgiving - FDR Library
Letters celebrating and protesting the change of Thanksgiving's date
Letters to (and from) Eleanor Roosevelt | APM Reports
These letters provide insight into the severity of the Depression but also the vitriol and hatred faced by Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. People who lament the discourse of the 21st century should look to these to see that what they are complaining about is not really knew
US Citizens of Mexican descent "repatriated" to Mexico
Add this to the long list of events of the past ignored by the taught narrative canon
In
1931 alone, anywhere from 50,000 to 75,000 individuals returned to Mexico.
Los Angeles lost approximately one-third of its Mexican population during this
period.<sup>49</sup> Between 1929 and 1935, more than 400,000 people were repatriated
to Mexico, including U.S. citizens of Mexican descent.
Hearings before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization 1930
Crtl-F words like "Mexicans", "Indians", "Negros", "inferior" "peon", "race" in this record of congressional deliberations during the Depression to see the way in which race was candidly discussed during the time.
This map shows why FDR's New Deal was a big deal - Big Think
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