Great Depression - Local interest
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Franklin Historical Resources - Digitized
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Important Documents in American History Primary Sources
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Journal of Urban History, May 2001
From U.S. History in Context
The Ohio city of Cleveland was showing signs of deterioration in the 1950s, with the loss of its middle-class roots to the suburbs and commercial business in decline. The purpose of the 1949 housing act was to reverse...
Jenkins, William D. "Before downtown." Journal of Urban History 27, no. 4 (2001): 471+.
Primary Sources
1925_The Klansman's Manual - (Michigan State University)
Washington, D.C., September 1`3, 1921
Collected commentary on the Ku Klux Klan, 1919-1929 PDF
Political cartoons on the Ku Klux Klan, 1921-1928 (16) PDF
- Cartoon analysis chart PDF
Klan parade in Washington, DC, silent newsreel, 1925
BRITISH PATHÉ NEWS
"Timely Topics," recording by Will Rogers, 1923
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Audio Transcript PDF
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American Decades Primary Sources, 2004
From U.S. History in Context
Roaring Twenties Reference Library, 2006
From U.S. History in Context
Landing Page for 1920s - U.S. History in Context (specifying "nativism.")
Landing Page for Nativism - U.S. History in Context
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Recordings of American music