Working men and women battled landowners and factory managers for the right to join a union. On the tenant farms and in the steel factories working people asserted their citizenship in the midst of great economic turmoil and a tide of government reform.
This is a first-rate documentary highlighting response of the people to crisis. Includes attention to unemployed,labor and farmer militancy, the "EPIC" campaign in California. By the producers of the better-know "Eyes on the Prize" series on the Civil Rights Movement. Especially important now, as the Right tries to dismantle every aspect of the New Deal and progressivism. Watch the series on the playlist below.
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