...This chapter focuses on the changes to western Kentucky associated with the New Deal and the important roles of leaders from the region in bringing about those changes. New Deal programs starting with the temporary closing of banks and federal banking reform followed by the Civilian Conservation...

...This chapter discusses the various initiatives designed to help the poor youth to break the “cycle of poverty.” The initiatives combined an assortment of strategies reflecting both the political heritage of the New Deal and the new social science theories of the postwar period. The legislation...

... World War II. The Democrats remained stronger than the Republicans, and the New Deal tradition continued to greatly influence Kentucky politics. anti Chandlerites Constitution of 1891 Kentucky Johnson Keen Logan County Kentucky Rhea Thomas Willis Simeon Barkley Alben W Swope King Brown John Y...

...As Cobb’s career hit rock bottom, his health declined, as did daughter Buff’s second marriage. However, he started to write his life story in the late 1930s, titled Exit Laughing. Cobb’s opposition to the New Deal and a third term for Roosevelt led him to campaign for Willkie...

...The 1932 election found Barkley reelected to the Senate and FDR elected to the presidency. Barkley played a key role in New Deal legislation because of his Senate committees and his close relationship with Senate majority leader Joseph T. Robinson. He became the unofficial and then the official...

...A conservative Supreme Court seemed bent on destroying the New Deal. President Roosevelt wanted Congress to pass a bill adding more justices to the federal judicial system. Barkley supported FDR because the court attacked programs for farmers and workers—Barkley’s key supporters. Most Republicans...

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... accusations that their visions and actions were “un-American” and somewhat rebellious. During this period, several people felt frustration regarding the reform effort involvings another “New Deal” for Appalachia. Although Kennedy did not fulfill what he promised during his campaign, the Appalachian volunteers...

...Under the impact of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II, the Urban League's social service agenda moved increasingly from preoccupation with industrial employers toward work with a variety of state agencies charged with helping ordinary working people make ends meet during a moment...

...This chapter discusses the New Deal and the relationship of Afro-Americans and the administration of President Franklin Roosevelt. The New Deal gave the blacks hope for a better life and better treatment. The early relief and welfare operations of the New Deal proved to be only marginally more...

... demonstrates that, despite its relative geographic isolation, the region west of the eastern boundary of Hancock, Ohio, Butler, Warren, and Simpson Counties to the Mississippi River played significant roles in state and national politics during the New Deal and postwar eras. Drawing on extensive archival...

.... These New Deal reformers also believed that the subsistence homestead could build a sense of community, alleviating the alienation resulting from economic displacement. Seeking sites for the social experiment to begin, Eleanor Roosevelt visited the coal camps in north central West Virginia. Feeling sympathy...

...Chapter 2 maps the labor activism of St. Louis’s largest segment of black working-class women as they mounted a labor reform program that anticipated and challenged New Deal labor legislation. With progressive black women staffers who led the St. Louis Urban League’s Women’s Division...

...Upon taking office, Roosevelt was unwilling to risk raising controversial foreign policy issues while implementing the New Deal. He supported the Stimson Doctrine of non-recognition of Japan's conquest of Manchuria, expanding trade to promote recovery, and implementing the Good Neighbor Policy...

...Though liberalism might be difficult to define, by the 1990s it was clear that the creed had declined. This chapter defines American liberalism by locating it deep in the nation's past and tracing its evolution. Rejuvenated by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, liberals also refitted their doctrine...

... to the Great Depression and to the rise of the New Deal and other aspects such as migration and equal rights for women and for all races. Also, this age saw the rise of politics, and Kentucky's best year was viewed to be 1949. automobiles boat travel car transportation Ohio River railroads riverboats...

... a strong supporter and national spokesman for the New Deal. World War II found Senate majority leader Barkley playing a key role in wartime legislation, but he lost favor with President Roosevelt by opposing the president’s expensive revenue bill of 1944. Meanwhile, the senator had maintained close...