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Select Bibliography on Depression-era Youth and the National Youth Administration

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Abramowitz, Mildred Winer, Eleanor Roosevelt and Federal Responsibility and Responsiveness to Youth, the Negro, and Others in Time of Depression (New York, 1970).

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Cohen, Robert, When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America's First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

Lindley, Betty Grimes and Ernest Lindley, A New Deal for Youth; the Story of the National Youth Administration (New York, The Viking Press, 1938).

Rawick, George, ''The New Deal and Youth: The Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Youth Administration and the American Youth Congress." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1957.

Reiman, Richard A., The New Deal & American Youth: Ideas & Ideals in a Depression Decade (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992).

Tyack, David, Robert Lowe, and Elisabeth Hansford, Public Schools in Hard Times: The Great Depression and Recent Years (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984).

United States. National Youth Administration. Facing the Problems of Youth. The Work and Objectives of the National Youth Administration (Washington, D.C. U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1937).

Weisenberger, Carol A., Dollars and dreams: the National Youth Administration in Texas (New York: P. Lang, 1994).

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