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Repub policies created the perfect environment for economic collapse. Deregulation allowed banks to take increasingly greater risks, engaging in hedge fund trading, buying toxic assets and offering subprime mortgages to low-income buyers. /2 
On Feb. 20, 1939, the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization, put on a “Pro American Rally” at MSG, ostensibly to celebrate George Washington’s birthday. The backdrop for the stage was a 30-foot-tall banner of Washington flanked by American flags and swastikas. /2 
Smoot and Hawley proposed the tariffs to offset overproduction. The U.S. economy had made significant gains in production, contributing to a surplus of farm produce. However, manufactured goods were more valuable, and U.S. exports were rising faster than imports. /2 
Atlanta newspapers had reported the false stories of the assaults, inflaming whites who already resented the city’s growing African American population. Atlanta’s Black population had increased from 9,000 in 1880 to 35,000 in 1900. /2
Indigenous people had been struggling for almost a century to gain recognition within international institutions. In 1920, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (also known as the Iroquois Six Nations) applied for membership in the League of Nations but was never accepted. /2 
For months, Attica’s inmates had been protesting inhumane conditions, including overcrowding, rationing of toilet paper and limits of one shower per week. Their frustrations came to a head on Sept. 9, when inmates overpowered their guards in a spontaneous uprising. /2
The areas were labeled “D1 lands” in 1971, meaning they are off limits to extractive activities unless the Interior Department deems otherwise. Before Interior can do that, it must perform environmental assessments and seek input from local Alaska Native peoples. /2
In 1928, LBJ earned his teacher’s certificate and worked with destitute Hispanic students. This helped form his attitude toward the government’s role in addressing poverty. From 1935 to 1937, he directed a program putting young Texans, including African Americans, to work building roadside parks. /2
Blanton was born in Houston, graduated from La Grange High School at age 16 and soon began her teaching career. After completing her undergrad at UT Austin, she served on the English faculty at North Texas State Normal College in Denton, now the University of North Texas. /2
First of all, her policies in no way come close to resembling communism. They could call them cantaloupes or carburetors with as much validity.
In his famous “Cross of Gold” speech of 1896, Democrat William Jennings Bryan used the metaphor of a leak: “There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below.” /2
Officially titled the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, the G.I. Bill was designed to prevent America from falling back into the Great Depression and avoid a repeat of the Bonus March of 1932, when 20,000 unemployed veterans and their families protested in Washington. /2
Peter Hernandez was a Mexican American agricultural worker who was convicted of murder in 1951. His pro bono legal team appealed the ruling because there were no Mexicans on the jury, even though Jackson County, Texas, had a large Hispanic population. /2
Polio is an infectious disease that occurs primarily in children, often resulting in paralysis. It had reached epidemic proportions in the early 20th century and was associated with the “iron lung” that was used to help those with respiratory paralysis breathe. /2
The protests, which began on 3 April, were orchestrated by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and its partners. Birmingham’s mayor accused “outsiders” of stirring up trouble, and the Commissioner of Public Safety obtained the injunction. /2
The ERA was designed to ensure legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex. It was first proposed in 1923 but languished until the 1960s. U.S. Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY) and feminists Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem pushed for its passage. /2
The Weavers were founded in 1948 by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays. The group was instrumental to the folk music revival of the 1950s, helping launch many other careers. Their rendition of “Goodnight Irene” stayed at No. 1 for 13 weeks in 1950, and they sold millions of records. /2
The election took place amid the Panic of 1893, a depression that caused widespread unemployment. By this time, many Americans were wage earners not farmers or shopkeepers. The high unemployment rate was devastating. The Populist Party emerged from this economic environment. /2
The zinc smelting plant had been releasing high levels of sulphuric acid, carbon monoxide and other pollutants into the atmosphere for years. There was no regulation of air pollution at that time. Everything changed when fog rolled into Donora on Oct. 26, 1948. /2
As depression gripped the world, the response of capitalist governments was to retrench and impose “beggar-thy-neighbor” policies. Historian Eric Hobsbawm described it as “a vicious circle” of severe protectionism that addressed everything except astronomical unemployment. /2