The Great Depression [Videorecording] / Blackside, Inc., The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, WGBH-TV Boston.

Contributor(s): Hampton, Henry, 1940- | Blackside, Inc | Corporation for Public Broadcasting | WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)Material type: FilmFilmReference number:29266344Publication details: 1993. Description: 4 videocassettes (VHS) (420 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 inSubject(s): Depressions -- 1929 -- United States | United States -- Economic policy | United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1945 | United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945 | New Deal, 1933-1939
Contents:
Tape 1. pt. 1. Job at Ford's (60:00) -- pt. 2. Road to rock bottom (60:00) -- Tape 2. pt. 1. New Deal/New York (60:00) -- pt. 2. We have a plan (60:00) -- Tape 3. pt. 1. Mean things happening (60:00) -- pt. 2. To be somebody (60:00) -- Tape 4. Arsenal of democracy (60:00)
Production credits: Series creator and executive producer, Henry Hampton.Joe Morton.Summary: This series on the Great Depression provides historical context for issues that dominate political and popular discourse today: the responsibilities of government to provide work assistance to the poor and unemployed; the responsibilities of businesses and industries to their workers; the persistence of prejudice in a nation founded on the ideal of liberty and justice for all; the importance of families, friends and the kindness of others during hard times.
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VHS format.

Originally broadcast on PBS in 1993.

Taped off-air with permission.

Series creator and executive producer, Henry Hampton.

Joe Morton.

Tape 1. pt. 1. Job at Ford's (60:00) -- pt. 2. Road to rock bottom (60:00) -- Tape 2. pt. 1. New Deal/New York (60:00) -- pt. 2. We have a plan (60:00) -- Tape 3. pt. 1. Mean things happening (60:00) -- pt. 2. To be somebody (60:00) -- Tape 4. Arsenal of democracy (60:00)

This series on the Great Depression provides historical context for issues that dominate political and popular discourse today: the responsibilities of government to provide work assistance to the poor and unemployed; the responsibilities of businesses and industries to their workers; the persistence of prejudice in a nation founded on the ideal of liberty and justice for all; the importance of families, friends and the kindness of others during hard times.

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