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A conversation with Robert McElvaine

BROADCAST: Mar. 11, 1983 | DURATION: 00:50:05

Synopsis

The history professor shares some of the voices that are collected in his book, Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man. Included in the program are clips from interviews with working mother Jane Yoder, Chicagoan Clifford Burke, Appalachian resident Peggy Terry, and Virginia Durr of Montgomery, Alabama.

*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations
 

Details

Broadcast Date
Mar. 11, 1983

Duration
50 minutes, 5 seconds

Topics

Great Depression American History & Politics

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McElvaine, Robert Down and out in the great depression. Authors, American Audiotapes Radio programs WFMT (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.) The Great Depression Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962. "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live" - Blind Alfred Reed

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