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Unknown, FDR'S Fireside Chats, National Records and Archives Administration, March 12 1933

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, commonly referred to as “FDR,”who took executive office in early 1933, would become the only president in American…

Tags: FDR, Fireside Chats, Great Depression, Historic, Radio, WWII

FDR Library & Museum, Soup Kitchen Line, FDR Library & Museum, 1936

This photo shows a line of men waiting in line at a soup ktichen during the Great Depression.

The Great Depression was triggered by an…

Tags: 1940s, Great Depression, Hunger, Poverty, Soup Kitchen, Unemployment, Volunteerism

Carl Mydans, Farm Security Administration - the New Deal, Library of Congress, 1935

Farm Security Administration (FSA) was an effort during the Great Depression to combat American rural poverty. The FSA stressed "rural rehabilitation"…

Tags: Anti-Poverty, Farm Security Administration, FDR, FSA, Great Depression, Rural Poverty

Elmer Wesley Greene, Herbert Hoover Timeline 1874-1964, White House Research, 1956

Hoover, Herbert C. 1874-1964, mining engineer, humanitarian, U.S. secretary of commerce, and 31st president of the United States, was the son of Jesse…

Tags: Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, Humanitarian, Presidents, Secretary of Commerce, Timelines