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In this message to Congress delivered on March 21, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a large-scale federal response to unemployment…

In this message to Congress delivered on March 9, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt requested emergency legislation to address the national…

Mending fishing nets at Fisherman's Wharf, 41 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, California, 1920s

Two men mending nets at Fisherman's Wharf.

Men with Hose Spraying Fire in Mission Church, 1926

Photograph of men with hose spraying fire in Mission Church in 1926. Fire burns in the north tower of the Mission Church.

Men looking at material posted in the window of the National Anti-Suffrage Association headquarters

Photograph shows men looking at material posted in the window of the National Anti-Suffrage Association headquarters; sign in window reads…

Memphis sanitation workers' strike

U.S. National Guard troops blocking off Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, as civil rights marchers pass by wearing placards reading “I Am a Man,”…

Memphis Sanitation Workers Memorial March

Memphis sanitation workers participating in a memorial march four days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.), December 22, 1861

Gives updates on what is happening in the war