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8. The Roosevelts kept trying to include all races in the New Deal, but others worked against them

Tue May 11, 2021, 08:27 PM

May 2021

Like Eleanor's beloved Arthurdale, the federally founded and funded community. Whites refused to live and work with Blacks.

Though the CCC was supposed to be open to all, it was an uphill climb.
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/ccc/salmond/chap5.htm

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