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New Deal Community of Norvelt

Lectures in History

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Are You Committed to the Community Ethos or to the Individualistic Ethos?

While the federal government owned the homes, you couldn't make any change to the home at all. The testimony is really curious down here, because they outwardly say, we were fine except that. And one of the examples was one of the sons and wanted to be the the drum major for the herst high school band, and they wouldn't let em do it. They didn't want a african american leading white women, white girls in the band, out onto the community. So there's a limitation there, said the am oh, no.

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