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OUTLINE OF CONTENTS

This outline of contents provides a general overview of the conceptual scheme of the encyclopedia, listing the titles of each entry. The outline is divided into twenty-one parts.

Agriculture; Biographies; Business; Culture; Economic Conditions; Environment; Events; Government; Intellectual Trends and Developments; International Situation; Labor; Law, Justice, and Crime; New Deal; Places; Politics (The Left, The Right); Protest; Race and Ethnicity; Religion; Society (Commentary, Lifestyles, Programs); Sports and Leisure; Women and Gender.

Because the section headings are not mutually exclusive, certain entries in the encyclopedia are listed in more than one section.

AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)

Agriculture

Alabama Sharecroppers'Union

American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF)

Back-to-the-Land movement

Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act

Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)

Davis, Chester

Dust Bowl

Ezekiel, Mordecai

Farm Credit Administration (FCA)

Farmers'Holiday Association (FHA)

Farmers Home Administration (FMHA)

Farm Foreclosures

Farm Policy

Farm Security Administration (FSA)

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC)

Frank, Jerome

Migratory Workers

National Farmers Union (NFU)

Okies

Resettlement Administration (RA)

Rural Electrification Administration (REA)

Rural Life

Sharecroppers Soil Conservation Service (SCS)

Southern Tenant Farmers'Union (STFU)

Subsistence Homesteads Division

Taylor Grazing Act

United Farmers'League (UFL)

Wallace, Henry A.

BIOGRAPHIES

Adamic, Louis

Agee, James

Allen, Frederick Lewis

Ameringer, Oscar

Ames, Jesse Daniel

Anderson, Marian

Anderson, Sherwood

Armstrong, Louis

Arnold, Thurman

Bakke, E. Wight

Baruch, Bernard

Bauer, Catherine

Berkeley, Busby

Berle, Adolf A., Jr.

Bethune, Mary McLeod

Biddle, Francis

Bilbo, Theodore

Black, Hugo

Borah, William

Bourke-White, Margaret

Brandeis, Louis D.

Bridges, Harry

Browder, Earl

Bunche, Ralph

Byrd, Harry

Byrnes, James F.

Cagney, James

Cahill, Holger

Caldwell, Erskine

Capone, Al

Capra, Frank

Cardoza, Benjamin N.

Cermak, Anton

Chandler, Raymond

Chaplin, Charlie

Chavez, Dennis

Church, Robert R., Jr.

Cohen, Benjamin V.

Collier, John

Coolidge, Calvin

Corcoran, Thomas G.

Costigan, Edward

Coughlin, Charles

Cowley, Malcolm

Cummings, Homer

Currie, Lauchlin

Darrow, Clarence

Davis, Chester

De Priest, Oscar

Dewey, Thomas E.

Dewson, Mary (Molly)

Disney, Walt

Dos Passos, John

Douglas, William O.

Dubinsky, David

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Earhart, Amelia

Eccles, Marriner

Ellington, Duke

Evans, Walker

Ezekiel, Mordecai

Farley, James A.

Father Divine

Faulkner, William

Fauset, Crystal Bird

Fish, Hamilton

Flanagan, Hallie

Flynn, Edward J.

Ford, Henry

Ford, John

Foreman, Clark

Foster, William Z.

Frank, Jerome

Frankfurter, Felix

Garner, John Nance

Gellhorn, Martha

Gershwin, George and Ira

Glass, Carter

Goodman, Benny

Green, William

Guthrie, Woody

Hague, Frank

Hammett, Dashiell

Hansen, Alvin

Harrison, Byron "Pat"

Hearst, William Randolph

Hellman, Lillian

Henderson, Leon

Hickok, Lorena

Hillman, Sidney

Hine, Lewis

Hitler, Adolf

Holiday, Billie

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.

Hoover, Herbert

Hoover, J. Edgar

Hoover, Lou Henry

Hopkins, Harry

Houston, Charles

Howe, Louis McHenry

Hughes, Charles Evans

Hughes, Langston

Hull, Cordell

Hurston, Zora Neale

Ickes, Harold

Insull, Samuel

Jackson, Robert

Johnson, Hugh

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Jones, Jesse

Kaiser, Henry

Kennedy, Joseph P.

Kerr, Florence

Keynes, John Maynard

Keyserling, Leon

La Follette, Philip

La Follette, Robert M., Jr.

La Guradia, Fiorello H.

Landon, Alfred M.

Lange, Dorothea

LeHand, Marguerite (Missy)

Lehman, Herbert

Lewis, John L.

Lindbergh, Charles

Long, Huey P.

Louis, Joe

Luce, Henry

Marcantonio, Vito

Marx Brothers

Mason, Lucy Randolph

Maverick, Maury

McWilliams, Carey

Means, Gardiner C.

Mellon, Andrew

Mencken, H. L.

Micheaux, Oscar

Mills, Ogden

Mitchell, Arthur W.

Moley, Raymond

Morgan, J. P., Jr.

Morgenthau, Henry T., Jr.

Moses, Robert

Moskowitz, Belle

Mumford, Lewis

Murphy, Frank

Murray, Philip

Mussolini, Benito

Muste, A. J.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Norris, George

Odum, Howard

Olson, Floyd B.

Owens, Jesse

Patman, Wright

Pecora, Ferdinand

Pendergast, Tom

Pepper, Claude

Perkins, Frances

Randolph, A. Philip

Raper, Arthur

Raskob, John J.

Reuther, Walter

Richberg, Donald

Rivera, Diego

Robeson, Paul

Robinson, Edward G.

Robinson, Joseph

Rogers, Will

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rothstein, Arthur

Ruml, Beardsley

Rumsey, Mary Harriman

Ryan, Father John A.

Sanger, Margaret

Shahn, Ben

Sinclair, Upton

Smith, Alfred E.

Smith, Gerald L. K.

Stalin, Josef

Steinbeck, John

Stimson, Henry

Talmadge, Eugene

Thomas, Norman

Thompson, Dorothy

Tugwell, Rexford G.

Tully, Grace

Vann, Robert

Wagner, Robert F.

Wallace, Henry A.

Weaver, Robert Clifton

Welles, Orson

West, Mae

West, Nathanael

Wheeler, Burton K.

White, Walter

White, William Allen

Williams, Aubrey

Willkie, Wendell

Wilson, Edmund

Woodward, Ellen

Wright, Richard

BUSINESS

Advertising in the Great Depression

Banking Panics (1930–1933)

Businessmen

Collective Bargaining

Communications Act of 1934

Fair Labor Standards Act

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA)

Federal Reserve System

Ford, Henry

Gold Standard

Guffey-Snyder Act of 1935

Guffey-Vinson Act of 1937

Hollywood and the Film Industry

Industry, Effects of the Great Depression on

Insull, Samuel

Johnson, Hugh

Jones, Jesse

Kaiser, Henry

Kennedy, Joseph P.

Luce, Henry

Mellon, Andrew

Morgan, J. P., Jr.

National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)

National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

National Recovery Administration (NRA)

Pecora, Ferdinand

Raskob, John J.

Ruml, Beardsley

Securities Regulation

Stock Market Crash (1929)

Welfare Capitalism

CULTURE

Agee, James

American Exodus, An

American Guide Series

American Scene, The

Amos 'n' Andy

Anderson, Marian

Anderson, Sherwood

Architecture

Armstrong, Louis

Art

"Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd"

Berkeley, Busby

Big Band Music

Bourke-White, Margaret

"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"

Cagney, James

Cahill, Holger

Caldwell, Erskine

Capra, Frank

Cartoons, Political

Chandler, Raymond

Chaplin, Charlie

Comics

Communications Act of 1934

Communications and the Press

Cowley, Malcolm

Cradle Will Rock, The

Culture and the Crisis

Disney, Walt

Documentary Film

Dos Passos, John

Ellington, Duke

Evans, Walker

Faulkner, William

Federal Art Project (FAP)

Federal Music Project (FMP)

Federal One Federal Theatre Project (FTP)

Federal Writers'Project (FWP)

Flanagan, Hallie

Folklorists

Ford, John

Freaks

Gabriel Over the White House

Gangster Films

Gershwin, George and Ira

Gold Diggers of 1933

Gone with the Wind

Goodman, Benny

Grapes of Wrath, The

Guthrie, Woody

Hammett, Dashiell

"Happy Days Are Here Again"

Hard-Boiled Detectives

Hellman, Lillian

Heroes

Highlander Folk School

Hine, Lewis

Holiday, Billie

Hollywood and the Film Industry

Hughes, Langston

Humor

Hurston, Zora Neale

I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang

Jazz

Lange, Dorothea

Literature

Little Caesar

Lomax, Alan

Luce, Henry

Marx Brothers

Mencken, H. L.

Museums, Art

Museums and Monuments, Historic

Music

New Masses

Our Daily Bread

Photography

Poetry

Post Office Murals

Production Code Administration (Hays Office)

Radio

"Remember My Forgotten Man"

Rivera, Diego

Robeson, Paul

Robinson, Edward G.

Rogers, Will

Rothstein, Arthur

Shahn, Ben

Slave Narratives

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Steinbeck, John

Superman

Thompson, Dorothy

Welles, Orson

West, Mae

West, Nathanael

"Which Side Are You On?"

White, William Allen

Wilson, Edmund

Wizard of Oz, The

Wright, Richard

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS

Africa, Great Depression in

Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)

Agriculture

Arnold, Thurman

Asia, Great Depression in

Australia and New Zealand, Great Depression in

Banking Panics (1930–1933)

Breadlines

Canada, Great Depression in

Causes of the Great Depression

Charity

Class

Collective Bargaining

Consumerism

Currie, Lauchlin

Deficit Spending

Eccles, Marriner

Economists

Economy, American

Economy Act of 1933

Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932

Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935

Europe, Great Depression in

Fair Labor Standards Act

Farm Credit Administration (FCA)

Farm Policy

Farm Security Administration (FSA)

Glass-Steagall Act of 1932

Glass-Steagall Act of 1933

Gold Standard

Hansen, Alvin

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Income Distribution

International Impact of the Great Depression

Joint Committee for National Recovery (JCNR)

Jones, Jesse

Keynes, John Maynard

Keynesian Economics

Laissez-Faire

Latin America, Great Depression in

London Economic Conference of 1933

Means, Gardiner C.

Mexico, Great Depression in

Midwest, Great Depression in the

Monetary Policy

National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

Northeast, Great Depression in the

Planning

Public Utilities Holding Company Act

Recession of 1937

Reciprocal Trade Agreements

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

Road to Plenty, The

Science and Technology

South, Great Depression in the

Stock Market Crash (1929)

Strikes

Taxation

Temporary National Economic Committee (TNEC)

Thomas Amendment

Transportation

Unemployment, Levels of

West, Great Depression in the American

World War II and the Ending of the Depression

ENVIRONMENT

Boulder Dam

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Conservation Movement

Dust Bowl

Grand Coulee Project

Greenbelt Towns

Land Use Planning

Regional Planning Association of America (RPAA)

Shelterbelt Project

Soil Conservation Service (SCS)

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

EVENTS

Bonus Army/Bonus March

Earhart, Amelia

Golden Gate International Exposition (1939–1940)

Harlem Riot (1935)

Lindbergh, Charles

Lynchings

Nazi-Soviet Pact

New York World's Fair (1939–1940)

San Francisco General Strike (1934)

GOVERNMENT

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)

Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act of 1937

Boulder Dam

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Civil Works Administration (CWA)

Cohen, Benjamin V.

Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)

Communications Act of 1934

Corcoran, Thomas G.

Cummings, Homer

Davis, Chester

Eccles, Marriner

Economists Economy Act of 1933

Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932

Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935

Fair Labor Standards Act

Farm Credit Administration (FCA)

Farmers Home Administration (FmHA)

Farm Policy

Farm Security Administration (FSA)

Federal Art Project (FAP)

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC)

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)

Federal Housing Administration (FHA)

Federal Music Project (FMP)

Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA)

Federal One

Federal Reserve System

Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC)

Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation (FSCC)

Federal Theatre Project (FTP)

Federal Writers'Project (FWP)

Glass, Carter

Glass-Steagall Act of 1932

Glass-Steagall Act of 1933

Government, United States Federal, Impact of the

Great Depression on

Governments, State, Impact of the Great

Depression on

Grassroots Democracy

Guffey-Snyder Act of 1935

Guffey-Vinson Act of 1937

Hatch Act of 1939

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)

Hopkins, Harry

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Hull, Cordell

Ickes, Harold

Johnson, Hugh

Jones, Jesse

Kennedy, Joseph P.

Keyserling, Leon

Land Use Planning

Lehman, Herbert

Mellon, Andrew

Monetary Policy

Morgenthau, Henry T., Jr.

National Housing Act of 1934

National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act)

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

National Recovery Administration (NRA)

National Resources Planning Board (NRPB)

National Youth Administration (NYA)

Norris-La Guradia Act

President's Committee on Social Trends

President's Emergency Committee for Employment (PECE)

President's Organization for Unemployment Relief (POUR)

Prohibition

Public Power

Public Utilities Holding Company Act

Public Works Administration (PWA)

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

Reorganization Act of 1939

Resettlement Administration (RA)

Richberg, Donald

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Ruml, Beardsley

Rural Electrification Administration (REA)

Securities Regulation

Shelterbelt Project

Social Security Act

Social Workers

Soil Conservation Service (SCS)

Stimson, Henry

Supreme Court

Taxation

Taylor Grazing Act

Temporary Emergency Relief Administration, New York (TERA)

Temporary National Economic Committee (TNEC)

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Tugwell, Rexford G.

United States Housing Authority (USHA)

Wagner, Robert F.

Wallace, Henry A.

Woodward, Ellen

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

INTELLECTUAL TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS

Architecture

Arnold, Thurman

Art

Culture and the Crisis

Economists

Education

History, Interpretation, and Memory of the Great Depression

Individualism

Keynes, John Maynard

Keynesian Economics

Literature

Marxism

Mumford, Lewis

Museums, Art

Museums and Monuments, Historic

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Poetry

Religion

Science and Technology

Social Science

Southern Agrarians

Values, Effects of the Great Depression on

INTERNATIONAL SITUATION

Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Africa, Great Depression in

Asia, Great Depression in

Australia and New Zealand, Great Depression in

Canada, Great Depression in

Causes of the Great Depression

Dictatorship

Ethiopian War

Europe, Great Depression in

Fascism

Gold Standard

Good Neighbor Policy

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Hitler, Adolf

International Impact of the Great Depression

Isolationism

Keynes, John Maynard

Kristallnacht

Latin America, Great Depression in

London Economic Conference of 1933

Mexico, Great Depression in

Military: United States Army

Military: United States Navy

Mussolini, Benito

Nazi-Soviet Pact

Olympics, Berlin (1936)

Peace Movement

Popular Front

Reciprocal Trade Agreements

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Spanish Civil War

Stalin, Joseph

Stimson, Henry

World Court

World War II and the Ending of the Depression

LABOR

Alabama Sharecroppers'Union

Amalgamated Clothing Workers (ACW)

American Federation of Labor (AFL)

American Labor Party

Bridges, Harry

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP)

Collective Bargaining

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

Dubinsky, David

Fair Labor Standards Act

Gastonia, North Carolina

Green, William

Harlan County

Highlander Folk School

Hillman, Sidney

International Labor Defense (ILD)

International Ladies'Garment Workers'Union (ILGWU)

Labor's Non-Partisan League

La Follette Civil Liberties Committee

Lewis, John L.

Little Steel Strike

Mason, Lucy Randolph

Memorial Day Massacre

Murray, Philip

National Farmers Union (NFU)

National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act)

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Norris-La Guradia Act

Organized Labor

Perkins, Frances

Randolph, A. Philip

Reuther, Walter

San Francisco General Strike (1934)

Sit-Down Strikes

Southern Tenant Farmers'Union (STFU)

Steel Workers'Organizing Committee (SWOC)

Strikes

United Automobile Workers (UAW)

United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)

Wagner, Robert F.

"Which Side Are You On?"

Women's Emergency Brigade

LAW, JUSTICE, AND CRIME

Anti-lynching Legislation

Black, Hugo

Bonnie and Clyde (Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow)

Brandeis, Louis D.

Capone, Al

Cardoza, Benjamin N.

Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Cohen, Benjamin V.

Corcoran, Thomas G.

Crime

Darrow, Clarence

Dewey, Thomas E.

Douglas, William O.

Frankfurter, Felix

Herndon, Angelo, Case

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.

Hoover, J. Edgar

Houston, Charles

Hughes, Charles Evans

International Labor Defense (ILD)

Jackson, Robert

La Follette Civil Liberties Committee

Law Enforcement

Legal Profession

Lynchings

Missouri ex. rel. Gaines v. Canada

Murphy, Frank

National Lawyers Guild

Scottsboro Case

Supreme Court Supreme Court "Packing"Controversy

NEW DEAL

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)

Aid to Dependent Children (ADC)

American Guide Series

Arnold, Thurman

Arthurdale, West Virginia

Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act of 1937

Baruch, Bernard

Berle, Adolf A., Jr.

Black Cabinet

Boondoggle

Brain(s) Trust

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Civil Works Administration (CWA)

Cohen, Benjamin V.

Collier, John

Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)

Communications Act of 1934

Conservation Movement

Corcoran, Thomas G.

Davis, Chester

Deficit Spending

Democratic Party

Dewson, Mary (Molly)

Documentary Film

Douglas, William O.

Eccles, Marriner

Election of 1932

Election of 1934

Election of 1936

Election of 1938

Election of 1940

Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935

Ezekiel, Mordecai

Fair Labor Standards Act

Farley, James A.

Farm Credit Administration (FCA)

Farmers Home Administration (FmHA)

Farm Policy Farm Security Administration (FSA)

Federal Art Project (FAP)

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC)

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)

Federal Housing Administration (FHA)

Federal Music Project (FMP)

Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA)

Federal One

Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC)

Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation (FSCC)

Federal Theatre Project (FTP)

Federal Writers'Project (FWP)

Fireside Chats

Flanagan, Hallie

Flynn, Edward J.

Frank, Jerome

Frankfurter, Felix

Gellhorn, Martha

Glass-Steagall Act of 1933

Good Neighbor Policy

Government, United States Federal, Impact of the Great Depression on

Governments, State, Impact of the Great Depression on

Grand Coulee Project

Greenbelt Towns

Guffey-Snyder Act of 1935

Guffey-Vinson Act of 1937

Henderson, Leon

Hickok, Lorena

Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)

Hopkins, Harry

Howe, Louis McHenry

Hundred Days

Ickes, Harold

Indian New Deal

Indian Reorganization Act of 1934

Johnson, Hugh

Jones, Jesse

Kennedy, Joseph P.

Keyserling, Leon

Labor's Non-Partisan League

LeHand, Marguerite (Missy)

Moley, Raymond

Morgenthau, Henry T., Jr.

National Housing Act of 1934

National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act)

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

National Recovery Administration (NRA)

National Resources Planning Board (NRPB)

National Youth Administration (NYA)

New Deal

New Deal, Second

New Deal, Third

Old-Age Insurance

Perkins, Frances

Planning

Post Office Murals

Public Power

Public Utilities Holding Company Act

Public Works Administration (PWA)

Recession of 1937

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

Reorganization Act of 1939

Resettlement Administration (RA)

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rural Electrification Administration (REA)

Securities Regulation

Shelterbelt Project

Slave Narratives

Social Security Act

Soil Conservation Service (SCS)

Subsistence Homesteads Division

Supreme Court "Packing"Controversy

Taxation

Taylor Grazing Act

Temporary National Economic Committee (TNEC)

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Tugwell, Rexford G.

Tully, Grace

United States Housing Authority (USHA)

Wagner, Robert F.

Wallace, Henry A.

Williams, Aubrey

Woodward, Ellen

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

PLACES

Africa, Great Depression in

Appalachia, Impact of the Great Depression on

Arthurdale, West Virginia

Asia, Great Depression in

Australia and New Zealand, Great Depression in

Boulder Dam

Canada, Great Depression in

Cities and Suburbs

Dust Bowl

Europe, Great Depression in

Gastonia, North Carolina

Grand Coulee Project

Harlan County

Latin America, Great Depression in

Mexico, Great Depression in

Midwest, Great Depression in the

Northeast, Great Depression in the

Route 66

South, Great Depression in the

West, Great Depression in the American

POLITICS

Agricultural Adjustment Act

American Labor Party

American Liberty League

Anticommunism

Anti-lynching Legislation

Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (AAPA)

Bilbo, Theodore

Black Cabinet

Black Thirty-Hour Bill

Borah, William

Brain(s) Trust

Byrd, Harry

Byrnes, James F.

Cartoons, Political

Cermak, Anton

Chavez, Dennis

Communications and the Press

Communist Party

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

Conservative Coalition

Coolidge, Calvin

Costigan, Edward

Democratic Party

De Priest, Oscar

Dewey, Thomas E.

Dictatorship, Fear of in the United States

Election of 1928

Election of 1930

Election of 1932

Election of 1934

Election of 1936

Election of 1938

Election of 1940

End Poverty in California (EPIC)

Farley, James A.

Fireside Chats

Fish, Hamilton

Flynn, Edward J.

Garner, John Nance

Glass, Carter

Grassroots Democracy

Hague, Frank

Harrison, Byron "Pat"

Hatch Act of 1939

Hearst, William Randolph

Hoover, Herbert

Hopkins, Harry

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Howe, Louis McHenry

Ickes, Harold

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Joint Committee for National Recovery (JCNR)

Labor's Non-Partisan League

La Follette, Philip

La Follette, Robert M., Jr.

La Follette Civil Liberties Committee

La Guradia, Fiorello H.

Landon, Alfred M.

League for Independent Political Action

Lehman, Herbert

Lewis, John L.

Long, Huey P.

Marcantonio, Vito

Maverick, Maury

Micheaux, Oscar

Mills, Ogden

Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party

Mitchell, Arthur W.

Moses, Robert

Moskowitz, Belle

Murphy, Frank

National Women's Party

Norris, George

Olson, Floyd B.

Patman, Wright

Pecora, Ferdinand

Pendergast, Tom

Pepper, Claude

Political Realignment

Prohibition

Raskob, John J.

Reorganization Act of 1939

Republican Party

Robinson, Joseph

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Sinclair, Upton

Smith, Alfred E.

Socialist Party

Social Security Act

Stimson, Henry

Supreme Court "Packing"Controversy

Talmadge, Eugene

Tammany Hall

Taxation

Taxpayers Leagues

Thomas, Norman

Thomas Amendment

Townsend Plan

Union Party

Wagner, Robert F.

Wallace, Henry A.

Washington Commonwealth Federation (WCF)

Wheeler, Burton K.

White, William Allen

Willkie, Wendell

Wisconsin Progressive Party

THE LEFT

Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Alabama Sharecroppers'Union

American Labor Party

American Negro Labor Congress (ANLC)

American Student Union

American Youth Congress

Bridges, Harry

Browder, Earl

Communist Party

Cradle Will Rock, The Culture and the Crisis

End Poverty in California (EPIC)

Farmers'Holiday Association (FHA)

Foster, William Z.

Grassroots Democracy

Guthrie, Woody

Highlander Folk School

Hunger Marches

International Labor Defense (ILD)

League for Independent Political Action

Long, Huey P.

Marcantonio, Vito

Marxism

Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party

Muste, A. J.

National Lawyers Guild

New Masses

Olson, Floyd B.

Peace Movement

Popular Front

Sinclair, Upton

Socialist Party

Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW)

Southern Negro Youth Conference (SNYC)

Southern Tenant Farmers'Union (STFU)

Spanish Civil War

Stalin, Joseph

Thomas, Norman

Unemployed Councils

United Farmers'League (UFL)

Washington Commonwealth Federation (WCF)

"Which Side Are You On?"

Wisconsin Progressive Party

Workers Education Project

THE RIGHT

American Liberty League

Anticommunism

Anti-Semitism

Black Legion

Boondoggle

Byrd, Harry

Conservative Coalition

Coughlin, Charles

Dictatorship, Fear of in the United States

Fascism

Ford, Henry

Hitler, Adolf

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Kristallnacht

Lindbergh, Charles

Mussolini, Benito

Smith, Gerald L. K.

Spanish Civil War

Taxpayers Leagues

Union Party

PROTEST

Bonus Army/Bonus March

Communist Party

Conservative Coalition

Coughlin, Charles

Don't Buy Where You Can't Work Movement

End Poverty in California (EPIC)

Farmers'Holiday Association (FHA)

Harlem Riot (1935)

Hunger Marches

Long, Huey P.

Marxism

Memorial Day Massacre

San Francisco General Strike (1934)

Sinclair, Upton

Socialist Party

Strikes

Townsend Plan

Unemployed Councils

Union Party

RACE AND ETHNICITY

African Americans, Impact of the Great Depression on

American Negro Labor Congress (ANLC)

Ames, Jesse Daniels

Amos 'n'Andy

Anderson, Marian

Anti-lynching Legislation

Anti-Semitism

Armstrong, Louis

Asian Americans, Impact of the Great Depression on

Bethune, Mary McLeod

Black Cabinet

Black Metropolis

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP)

Bunche, Ralph

Caste and Class

Chavez, Dennis

Church, Robert R., Jr.

Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Collier, John

De Priest, Oscar

Domestic Service

Don't Buy Where You Can't Work Movement

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Ellington, Duke

Ethiopian War

Father Divine

Fauset, Crystal Bird

Foreman, Clark

Harlem Riot (1935)

Herndon, Angelo, Case

Holiday, Billie

Houston, Charles

Howard University

Hughes, Langston

Hurston, Zora Neale

Indian New Deal

Indian Reorganization Act of 1934

Latino Americans, Impact of the Great Depression on

Louis, Joe

Lynchings

Mason, Lucy Randolph

Micheaux, Oscar

Missouri ex. rel. Gaines v. Canada

Mitchell, Arthur W.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax

National Negro Congress

National Urban League

Native Americans, Impact of the Great Depression on

Owens, Jesse

Race and Ethnic Relations

Randolph, A. Philip

Robeson, Paul

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Scottsboro Case

Slave Narratives

Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW)

Southern Negro Youth Conference (SNYC)

Southern Tenant Farmers'Union (STFU)

Tuskegee Syphilis Project

Vann, Robert

Weaver, Robert Clifton

White, Walter

Williams, Aubrey

Wright, Richard

RELIGION

Father Divine

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Religion

Ryan, Father John A.

SOCIETY

COMMENTARY

Adamic, Louis

Agee, James

American Exodus, An

Ameringer, Oscar

Ames, Jesse Daniel

Anderson, Sherwood

Bakke, E. Wight

Boy and Girl Tramps of America

McWilliams, Carey

Middletown in Transition

Odum, Howard

President's Committee on Social Trends

Raper, Arthur

Report on the Economic Conditions of the South

Road to Plenty, The

Rumsey, Mary Harriman

Ryan, Father John A.

Sanger, Margaret

Social Science

Southern Agrarians

Steinbeck, John

LIFESTYLES

African Americans, Impact of the Great Depression on

Agriculture

Asian Americans, Impact of the Great Depression on

Back-to-the-Land Movement

Breadlines

Boy and Girl Tramps of America

Caste and Class

Causes of the Great Depression

Charity

Children and Adolescents, Impact of the Great Depression on

Cities and Suburbs

Class

Consumerism

Crime

Domestic Service

Dust Bowl

Economy, American

Education

Elderly, Impact of the Great Depression on the

Family and the Home, Impact of the Great Depression on

Farm Foreclosures

Gays and Lesbians, Impact of the Great Depression on

Gender Roles and Sexual Relations, Impact of the Great Depression on

Health and Nutrition

History, Interpretation, and Memory of the Great Depression

Homelessness

Housing

Income Distribution

Individualism

Industry, Effects of the Great Depression on

Latino Americans, Impact of the Great Depression on

Leisure

Men, Impact of the Great Depression on

Midwest, Great Depression in the

Migration

Migratory Workers

Native Americans, Impact of the Great Depression on

Okies

Philanthropy

Prostitution

Psychological Impact of the Depression

Rural Life

Sharecroppers

Social Workers

Soup Kitchens

South, Great Depression in the

Suicide

Transients

Tuskegee Syphilis Project

Unemployment, Levels of

Values, Effects of the Great Depression on

West, Great Depression in the American

Work Ethic

PROGRAMS

Aid to Dependent Children (ADC)

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Civil Works Administration (CWA)

Conservation Movement

Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935

Farm Security Administration (FSA)

Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)

Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation (FSCC)

Greenbelt Towns

Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)

Hopkins, Harry

Ickes, Harold

Kaiser, Henry

Kerr, Florence

Old-Age Insurance

Public Works Administration (PWA)

Resettlement Administration (RA)

Social Security Act

Subsistence Homesteads Division

Temporary Emergency Relief Administration, New York (TERA)

Townsend Plan

United States Housing Authority (USHA)

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

SPORTS AND LEISURE

Hollywood and the Film Industry

Leisure

Literature

Louis, Joe

Monopoly (Board Game)

Music

Olympics, Berlin (1936)

Owens, Jesse

Radio

Sports

WOMEN AND GENDER

Dewson, Mary (Molly)

Domestic Service

Earhart, Amelia

Fauset, Crystal Bird

Gays and Lesbians, Impact of the Great Depression on

Gellhorn, Martha

Gender Roles and Sexual Relations, Impact of the Great Depression on

Grapes of Wrath, The

Hellman, Lillian

Holiday, Billie

Hoover, Lou Henry

Hurston, Zora Neale

Kerr, Florence

Lange, Dorothea

LeHand, Marguerite (Missy)

Mason, Lucy Randolph

Men, Impact of the Great Depression on

Moskowitz, Belle

National Women's Party

Perkins, Frances

Prostitution

"Remember My Forgotten Man"

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Rumsey, Mary Harriman

Sanger, Margaret

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Thompson, Dorothy

Tully, Grace

West, Mae

Women, Impact of the Great Depression on

Women's Emergency Brigade

Woodward, Ellen

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