The Great Depression and the New Deal: Transient Division Newsletter from Macon, Georgia
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https://doi.org/10.21900/j.sourcelab.v4.1240Keywords:
New Deal, Great Depression, Newsletters, Transient Camps, 1930s, Homosexuality, raceAbstract
Vol 4. No. 2 (2023). This issue of SourceLab introduces readers to New Deal, a transient camp newsletter published in Macon, Georgia in 1934. This publication is part of the digital documentary edition series SourceLab, based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our Editorial Board conducts rigorous peer-review of every edition.
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