Great Depression and New Deal
Read and listen: Dubofsky and Dulles, chapters 13-16 and 17 (pp. 286-292);
Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress, https://guides.loc.gov/migrant-mother
“Protecting Workers by Supporting Unions: National Labor Relations Act, 1935, Wagner Act,” in Mario R. DiNunzio, Documents Decoded: The Great Depression and New Deal, pp. 191-196,
Read at least 3 life histories of Americans during the Great Depression, in “American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writer’s Project, 1936-1939,” https://www.loc.gov/collections/federal-writers-project/articles-and-essays/rank-and-file/
FDR speech on the eve of the 1936 election, 31 October 1936, at Madison Square Garden: https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/october-31-1936-speech-madison-square-garden
1936 presidential election map by county: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_United_States_presidential_election#/media/File:PresidentialCounty1936Colorbrewer.gif
Write: How did the Second New Deal and the CIO address workers needs in the mid-1930s and what were the political outcomes of this alliance between the Democratic Party and the industrial union movement?