The American people in the 1930s and 1940s were no exception. They enjoyed many forms of entertainment, particularly if they could do so inexpensively. With the addition of sound, …

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Art and Entertainment in the 1930s and 1940s Even during "Hard Times" and wartime, people need to be entertained. The American people in the 1930s and 1940s were no exception.

Presentation U.S. History Primary Source Timeline Previous Section Race Relations in the 1930s and 1940s World War II Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 1941 Farm Security Administration/Office of War …

By the 1940s, organized baseball had been racially segregated for many years. The black press and some of their white colleagues had long campaigned for the integration of baseball.

Most images are digitized | All jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress | View All About the FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives The photographs in the Farm Security …

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The entry of the United States into World War II caused vast changes in virtually every aspect of American life.

A complex set of interacting forces both economic and ecological brought the migrant workers documented in this ethnographic collection to California. Following World War I, a recession …

Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on …