About the Author
Linden K. McNeilly taught public
school for many years. She now writes
children’s books and lives in California
with her family.
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Anderson, Marion, 19
banking crisis, 6–7
Bonus Marchers, 10
Caldwell and Company,
6–7
Caldwell, Rogers, 6
Civilian Conservation
Corps (CCC), 15, 16,
18
crops, 20–21, 24
discrimination, 16–17,
18–19
entertainment, 28–29
family life, 8–9, 26
farmers, 15, 24–25
Federal Reserve, 7
fireside chats, 14
Hoover, Herbert, 10, 11,
12–13, 14, 25
Hoovervilles, 13
MacArthur, Douglas, 11
McLeod Bethune, Mary,
19
New Deal, 14–15, 18,
21
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 17,
19
Roosevelt, Franklin
Delano (FDR), 13,
14–15, 17, 18, 19,
21, 25
school, 22–23
sharecroppers, 20–21
Social Security Act,
14–15, 21
soup kitchens, 9
teenagers, 22, 26–27
trains, 26–27
veterans, 10–11
Works Progress
Administration (WPA),
15, 18
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