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Radical Responses to the Great Depression Radical Responses to the Great Depression
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arrowIntroduction


arrowUnemployment, Hunger & Deprivation


arrowOrganizations: Labor Unions, Communist Party, Socialist Party


arrowThe Case of the Scottsboro Boys


arrowThe Case of Tom Mooney


Radical Novels


arrowRadical Appeals to the Literati


arrowVoices from the Right


arrowThe Spanish Civil War


arrowViolence in Labor Strikes


arrowWPA Federal Theatre Project


arrowRadical Magazines and Newsletters

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Old Hell.
Emmett Gowen.
New York: Modern Age Books, 1937.
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A humorous treatment of a Tennessee mountain white, compared to Caldwell's God's Little Acre. The author taught at Commonwealth College, closed in 1941 as subversive by the Arkansas attorney general. "Gowen is a backwoods Thurber."--Stanley Young, N.Y. Times.


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