White Affirmative Action (Seeing White, Part 13)
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The History of the Federal Housing Administration
In 1929 the stock market crashes. 5,000 banks closed. People were losing their jobs every day. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected in 1932 promising a new deal. The result is a raft of initiatives that go on to build massive middle-class wealth in the United States.
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