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This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Cuba. Materials include a…
The Washington daily news (Washington, D.C.), June 27, 1939
National Industrial Recovery ActThe National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 16, 1933, was a major piece of New Deal…
Social Security ActThe Social Security Act, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935, established a federal system of old-age benefits,…
Wyoming WPA Subject File, Women's jury "Wyoming women first in world to be jurors"Women's jury "Wyoming women first in world to be jurors"
University of Wyoming women studentsGroup portrait of University of Wyoming women students in front of the women's dorm, Laramie, Wyoming, 1918
Two more about to blowCartoon shows several sombreros. Two, Cuba and Panama, have exploded like volcanos, erupting into an "Anti-U.S. campaign." Two more sombreros, Brazil…
A working paper presenting selected decennial census data on the foreign-born population of the United States from 1850 to 1990, with 22 statistical…
Speaker, migratory worker, leader in the cotton strike, at Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization (Steinbeck Committee), Bakersfield, California. Saying: "Brother, 'Hits pick seventy-five cent cotton or starve. Brother, 'hits pick seventy-five cent cotton or else"Photograph showing leader in the cotton strike at a conference to aid agricultural workers.
Made it illegal for employers to knowingly hire undocumented workers and created the I-9 employment verification system.
Provided amnesty to certain…