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Table of Contents Foreword Preface PART ONE Introduction: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Liberalism PART TWO The Documents 1. FDR as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Press Conference, March 8, 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Annual Message to the Congress, January 4, 1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden, October 31, 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary, March 9, 1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speeches on Conservation and the Environment, 1936-1937 2. The New Deal Robert F. Wagner, The National Labor Relations Act, February 21, 1935 Frances Perkins, The Social Security Act, September 2, 1935 John Steinbeck, The Crisis in Agriculture, September 12, 1936 Harry Hopkins, Federal Relief, September 19, 1936 Hallie Flanagan, The Federal Theatre Project, May 11, 1938 3. Eleanor Roosevelt and American Women Eleanor Roosevelt, Women in the Labor Force, June 16, 1938 Molly Dewson, Women and the New Deal, April 8, 1936 Eleanor Roosevelt, Women in Politics, March-April, 1940 4. Documenting the Depression: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands, Mississippi Delta, 1936 Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 Mexican Migratory Field Workers Home on the Edge of a Frozen Pea Field, Imperial Valley, California, 1937 Small Independent Gas Station during Cotton Strike, Kern City, California, November 1938 5. Right. . .and Left. . .Face Herbert Hoover, The Challenge to Liberty, 1934 American Liberty League, The New Deal vs. Democracy, July 15, 1936 Upton Sinclair, The EPIC Plan, 1934 Father Charles E. Coughlin, The National Union for Social Justice, November 11, 1934 Huey P. Long, Share Our Wealth, May 23, 1935 6. Race, Ethnicity, and Reform Songs of the Mexican Migration: Deported [Deportados], 1933 Selden Menefee and Orin C. Cassmore, The Pecan Shellers of San Antonio, 1940 W. E. B. Du Bois and Walter White: The NAACP and Segregation, January-February 1934 A. Phillip Randolph, The March on Washington, November 1942 John Collier, A New Deal for American Indians, 1938 J. C. Morgan, The Voice of a Navajo Indian, April 10, 1934 7. The Constitutional Revolution Owen Roberts and Harlan Fiske Stone, United States v. Butler, January 6, 1936 Robert M. La Follette Jr., Unpacking the Court, February 13, 1937 Herbert H. Lehman, A Greatly Dangerous Precedent, July 19, 1937 Charles Evans Hughes and George Sutherland, West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, March 29, 1937 Benjamin N. Cardozo, Helvering v. Davis, May 24, 1937 8. Morale in Wartime: A Portfolio of Propaganda Posters U.S. War Manpower Commission, United We WIn, 1943 Employment Service, Do the Job HE Left Behind, 1943[?] Packer Aircraft, Lookout Monks! Heres Your Plane Warning! 1942 U.S. Treasury Department, Buy Victory Bonds, 1945 9. The Good War? Western Defense Command, Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry, April 30, 1942 Footprints: Poetry of the American Relocation Camp Experience, ca. 1942-1944 Hugo Black and Frank Murphy, Korematsu v. United States, December 18, 1944 Pearl S. Buck and A. Leonard Allen, Debate about the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts, May 20, 1943 Robert Jackson and Felix Frankfurter, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, June 14, 1943 Randolph Paul, Report to the Secretary [of the Treasury] on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews, January 13, 1944 John W. Pehle and John J. McCloy, Debate about the Bombing of Auschwitz, July-November, 1944 Eleanor Roosevelt, Race, Religion and Prejudice, May 11, 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt, An Economic Bill of Rights, January 11, 1944 APPENDICES Chronology of Events during the Era Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) Questions for Consideration Selected Bibliography Index