February 23: The Great
Depression introduction
Read: Give Me
my
outline on the 1920s and shorter hours solution
View
in class: A Job At Ford’s
Questions: What caused the Great
Depression? What was the reaction of people and officials to this challenge? What was the shorter hours
solution?
Recommended:
·
Calvin Coolidge on the
Spirituality of Commerce
·
Harlan: Working under the Gun
Harlan Coal Strike of 1931—harbinger of 1930s labor strife
·
Which Side Are You
On? (legendary song from the Harlan County Miners Strike)
·
40 Documents
and lesson plan on the Bonus March
·
FBI file on the Bonus Expeditionary
Force http://foia.fbi.gov/bonmarch.htm
One
of many, many files—see the long list on this Freedom
of Information site-- either of groups or famous persons, that historians
and activists have forced the FBI to release in the wake of the Freedom of
information Act of the 1970s. These files indicate the continued FBI repression
against protest movements. The Bonus March, as the chapter indicates, was a
group of veterans who were determined to get aid during the Depression. Yet the
army was used to repress their movement. Many of the documents from the 1930s
shows the enormous courage people took, despite repression, to express their
rights.
·
Unemployed Organizing in the Great
Depression –oral history
·
Unemployed Councils of the 1930s
–oral history
·
“Like a Thick Wall”: Blocking Farm
Auctions in Iowa
·
SHORTER WORK WEEK AS THE SOLUTION
TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION
The
popular solution to the Great Depression was the 30 hour work week, which
passed the Senate in 1933, and seemed the destiny of the nation…What happened.?
·
Losing the Business: The Donners Recall the Great Depression
·
“The Depression
has Changed People’s Outlook”: The
·
Beuschers
Remember the Great Depression in
·
·
A Woman Remembers Hoboes of the
1930s
·
The Vagrant in Fiction: Emblematic
American?
·
SHORTER WORK WEEK AS THE SOLUTION
TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION
·
The popular
solution to the Great Depression was the 30 hour work week, which passed the
Senate in 1933, and seemed the destiny of the nation…What happened.?
Site has polemical commentary, but cites historical research.
·
“Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself”:
FDR’s First Inaugural Address
·
“The Republic Is Imperiled”: John
L. Lewis Warns of Ignoring Laboring People
·
“Scottsboro
Boys” Trial –dramatic struggle to free the black youth accused of (framed
for the) rape of a white woman in
Documents
of the “Scottboro Boys” defense
Robin D.G.
Kelley, The Case of the “Scottsboro Boys”—short
synopsis