The Four Freedoms with Harvey J. Kaye
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The Civil Rights Movement During the War
The Great Compression reduced inequality between the late 30s and the 1950s. Even though the rich got richer, not just poverty, inequality was reduced. The labor movement grew during the war; civil rights movement went from 50,000 formerly organized members to nearly 500,000 organized members. Black workers, women workers were all of a sudden making living wages. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, this is a paper making valley from Oshkosh down to Fondlack,. All the way up here to Green Bay, paper mills. It's no longer a Fort Howard paper factory. They're now part of a much larger enterprise.
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