Primary Sources:

Twentienth Century

Find seven of Margaret Sanger’s published articles and speeches advocating birth control at hhttp://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/othdocs.htm. 

View digital images of five documents arguing for the importance of birth control written by Margaret Sanger at http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/othdocs.htm. 

Look at a chart of occupations of the U.S. population in 1930, compiled by the Census Bureau at http://www.dohistory.org/archive/doc099/. 

Read the transcription of Mrs. Henry Weddington’s 1936 letter to President Roosevelt at http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/divine5e/medialib/timeline/docs/sources/theme_primarysources_Civil_Rights_16.html.  She addresses discrimination against African Americans in New Deal programs.

“I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions,” reported Dorothea Lange.  See several 1936 photographs of the “Migrant Mother” in California at http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/fsa/lang.html.  Click to enlarge the photos.

Look at two 1936 photographs of Alabama sharecroppers at http://chnm.gmu.edu/fsa/a/index.html. 

See the front page of the New York Times, including the article, “Stocks Collapse in 16,410,030-Share Day, but Rally at Close Cheers Brokers; Bankers Optimistic, To Continue Aid,” from October 30, 1929 at http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/991029onthisday_big.html. 

Verda Galbreath Carter lived on a farm in Northeast Ohio during the depression.  Read her diary from 1934 to 1938, which includes pictures, and learn about women’s lives on farms during this period at http://carterdiary.freeservers.com/. 

Find links to Eleanor Roosevelt’s column “My Day” at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/sfeature/myday.html.  She addressed issues relating to key events, race, and women.

Read about the 1938 Pecan Shellers Strike in San Antonio, Texas at http://womhist.binghamton.edu/pecan/doclist.htm.  Find 22 original documents that explain how Mexican and Mexican-American women stood up for their labor rights as employers tried to cut wages to the point of starvation.

Look at a 1943 document describing boarding homes for women workers during the war at http://www2.smu.edu/cul/ww2/boardinghome.htm. 

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