"SOCIAL SECURITY?"

II. RESOURCES

List of Background Sources:

• Textbook chapter on The Great Depression and New Deal
  
• “The Discovery of Poverty,” in The Invisible Scar, Caroline Bird, New York, D. McKay Co., 1966.
  
• “Dear Mrs. Roosevelt” - http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/er3a.htm
• “Frances Perkins National Radio Address on February 25, 1935,
  presenting the Committee on Economic Security’s Recommendations,” - http://www.ssa.gov/history/perkinsradio.html
• "On Social Security, “ President Roosevelt’s “Message to Congress, January 17, 1935,
  http://newdeal.feri.org/speeches/1935b.htm
• “One Third of a Nation”: FDR’s Second Inaugural Address, January, 1937, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5105/
• “President Herbert Hoover Applauds Limited Government, 1931” in The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover, edited by William Starr Myers, 1934.
• “The Nation Asks ‘Is It to Be Murder, Mr. Hoover? 1932’” in The Nation, August 3, 1932
• “Business Leader Henry Ford Advocates Self-Help, 1932” in Literary Digest, June 18, 1932
• “Republican Party Platform (1936)” - http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/108/110704/ch24_a4_d1.pdf
• “How Social Security Was Defended by Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson” by John Q. Barrett   http:/hnn.us/articles/10212.html or http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/108/110704/ch24_a4_d1.pdf
• “Senator Huey P. Long Wants Every man to Be a King” from Huey P. Long, “Every Man a King,” Congressional Record, March 1, 1934
• “Dr. Francis Townsend Promotes Old-Age Pensions (1933)” from Dr. Francis E. Townsend, http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/108/110704/ch24_a4_d1.pdf
• “NAACP Representative Testimony” from Charles H. Houston, representing the NAACP, to the House Ways and Means Committee on the Economic Security bill, February 1. 1935, http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/108/110704/ch24_a4_d1.pdf
• “The New Deal: The Conservative Achievements of Liberal Reform,” Barton Bernstein from “Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History by Barton Bernstein, 1968