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Preface |
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PART ONE Introduction: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Liberalism |
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3 | (5) |
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The Waning of Reform, 1937--1940 |
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Liberals at War, 1941--1945 |
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PART TWO The Documents |
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First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 |
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39 | (5) |
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First Press Conference, March 8, 1933 |
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44 | (3) |
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Annual Message to the Congress, January 4, 1935 |
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47 | (6) |
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Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden, October 31, 1936 |
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53 | (5) |
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Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary, March 9, 1937 |
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58 | (6) |
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Speeches on Conservation and the Environment, 1936--1937 |
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64 | (4) |
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68 | (25) |
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The National Labor Relations Act, February 21, 1935 |
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68 | (4) |
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The Social Security Act, September 2, 1935 |
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72 | (5) |
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The Crisis in Agriculture, September 12, 1936 |
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77 | (6) |
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Federal Relief, September 19, 1936 |
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83 | (6) |
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The Federal Theatre Project, May 11, 1938 |
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89 | (4) |
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Eleanor Roosevelt and American Women |
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93 | (15) |
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Women in the Labor Force, June 16, 1938 |
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93 | (6) |
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Women and the New Deal, April 8, 1936 |
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99 | (4) |
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Women in Politics, March--April 1940 |
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103 | (5) |
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Documenting the Depression: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange |
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108 | (6) |
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Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands, Mississippi Delta, 1936 |
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109 | (1) |
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Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 |
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110 | (1) |
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Mexican Migratory Field Worker's Home on the Edge of a Frozen Pea Field, Imperial Valley, California, 1937 |
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111 | (1) |
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Small Independent Gas Station during Cotton Strike, Kern City, California, November 1938 |
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112 | (2) |
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114 | (19) |
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The Challenge to Liberty, 1934 |
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114 | (3) |
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American Liberty League, The New Deal vs. Democracy, July 15, 1936 |
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117 | (3) |
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120 | (2) |
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The National Union for Social Justice, November 11, 1934 |
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122 | (4) |
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Father Charles E. Coughlin |
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Share Our Wealth, May 23, 1935 |
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126 | (7) |
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Race, Ethnicity, and Reform |
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133 | (28) |
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Songs of the Mexican Migration: Deported [Deportados], 1933 |
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133 | (3) |
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The Pecan Shellers of San Antonio, 1940 |
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136 | (6) |
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The NAACP and Segregation, January--February 1934 |
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142 | (5) |
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The March on Washington, November 1942 |
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147 | (4) |
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A New Deal for American Indians, 1938 |
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151 | (5) |
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The Voice of a Navajo Indian, April 10, 1934 |
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156 | (5) |
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The Constitutional Revolution |
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161 | (23) |
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United States v. Butler, January 6, 1936 |
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161 | (8) |
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Unpacking the Court, February 13, 1937 |
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169 | (4) |
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Robert M. La Follette, Jr. |
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A Greatly Dangerous Precedent, July 19, 1937 |
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173 | (2) |
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West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, March 29, 1937 |
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175 | (5) |
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Helvering v. Davis, May 24, 1937 |
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180 | (4) |
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Morale in Wartime: A Portfolio of Propaganda Posters |
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184 | (7) |
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U.S. War Manpower Commission, United We Win, 1943 |
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185 | (1) |
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U.S. Employment Service, Do the Job HE Left Behind, 1943[?] |
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186 | (2) |
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Packer Aircraft, Lookout Monks! Here's Your Plane Warning! 1942 |
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188 | (1) |
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U.S. Treasury Department, Buy Victory Bonds, 1945 |
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189 | (2) |
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191 | (54) |
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Western Defense Command, Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry, April 30, 1942 |
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191 | (3) |
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Footprints: Poetry of the American Relocation Camp Experience, ca. 1942--1944 |
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194 | (3) |
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Korematsu v. United States, December 18, 1944 |
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197 | (7) |
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Debate about the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts, May 20, 1943 |
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204 | (7) |
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West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, June 14, 1943 |
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211 | (8) |
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Report to the Secretary [of the Treasury] on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews, January 13, 1944 |
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219 | (2) |
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Debate about the Bombing of Auschwitz, July--November 1944 |
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221 | (3) |
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Race, Religion, and Prejudice, May 11, 1942 |
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224 | (2) |
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An Economic Bill of Rights, January 11, 1944 |
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226 | (3) |
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APPENDICES |
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Chronology of Events during the Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933--1945) |
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229 | (4) |
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Questions for Consideration |
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233 | (2) |
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235 | (10) |
Index |
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