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The Great Depression

on BBC Two England

New Deal, New York
Continuing the series in which newsreel, music and eye-witness accounts recall the decade that brought America to the brink of economic catastrophe. In 1933 not everyone in New York was dancing to the New Deal rhythm: the black poor lived in slum ghettos. But when
Congressman La Guardia crossed Roosevelt, the President cut federal funds.
Director/Producer Dante J James

BBC Two England

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