Add to ORKGWithin the text of the National Emergency Council’s 1938 Report on the Economic Conditions of the South, President Franklin Roosevelt wrote, “It is my conviction that the South presents right now the Nation’s No. 1 economic problem.” It is certainly powerful when a president broadly defines an entire region in a sentence. Probably for many Americans living outside the region Roosevelt’s simplistic generalization was conclusive. Many within the South resented that assessment as far too broad, offensively ignoring the region’s dynamic reality. Reassessing the 1930s South demonstrates the frailty of such a stark definition
At the dawning of the 1970s, the South stood on the verge of a remarkable period of economic and pol...
Poverty, disease, and illiteracy had long bedeviled the U.S. South, even before the agricultural dep...
After the depression of 1893, some New South prophets advocated a more assertive, foreign policy as ...
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as president, the South was unmistakably the most disadvanta...
Most scholars and journalists working on the South would likely agree that over the past fifty or si...
Article in the George Washington University MagazineIllustration by Bill L'Hommedieu [image credit] ...
Henceforth please disregard those glossy New Yorker ads touting Atlanta's cosmopolitanism, Nashville...
On 21 December 1886, Southern editor Henry W. Grady gave a speech at New York\u27s Delmonico\u27s Re...
Speech reflecting on challenges facing the American South-3- the nation's neglected child for a ful...
Most studies of President Theodore Roosevelt address his ���southern strategy��� to revive the Repu...
In the 1880s, Southern boosters saw the growth of industry as the only means of escaping the poverty...
To explain the reconciliation of the United States in the half-century after the Civil War, scholars...
Between the years 1865 and 1880, more travelers than in any period outside the Civil War streamed t...
On April 8, 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. Under the aut...
Citation: West, Georgiana. The New South. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1907.Mor...
At the dawning of the 1970s, the South stood on the verge of a remarkable period of economic and pol...
Poverty, disease, and illiteracy had long bedeviled the U.S. South, even before the agricultural dep...
After the depression of 1893, some New South prophets advocated a more assertive, foreign policy as ...
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as president, the South was unmistakably the most disadvanta...
Most scholars and journalists working on the South would likely agree that over the past fifty or si...
Article in the George Washington University MagazineIllustration by Bill L'Hommedieu [image credit] ...
Henceforth please disregard those glossy New Yorker ads touting Atlanta's cosmopolitanism, Nashville...
On 21 December 1886, Southern editor Henry W. Grady gave a speech at New York\u27s Delmonico\u27s Re...
Speech reflecting on challenges facing the American South-3- the nation's neglected child for a ful...
Most studies of President Theodore Roosevelt address his ���southern strategy��� to revive the Repu...
In the 1880s, Southern boosters saw the growth of industry as the only means of escaping the poverty...
To explain the reconciliation of the United States in the half-century after the Civil War, scholars...
Between the years 1865 and 1880, more travelers than in any period outside the Civil War streamed t...
On April 8, 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. Under the aut...
Citation: West, Georgiana. The New South. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1907.Mor...
At the dawning of the 1970s, the South stood on the verge of a remarkable period of economic and pol...
Poverty, disease, and illiteracy had long bedeviled the U.S. South, even before the agricultural dep...
After the depression of 1893, some New South prophets advocated a more assertive, foreign policy as ...