New Deal/New York
TV documentary from Blackside Films, Part 3 of 7, 53 min., color
Executive Producer - Henry Hampton (also produced Eyes on the Prize 1987 and America's War on Poverty 1995)
Senior Producer, Great Depression series - Terry Kay Rockefeller
Premier airdate on PBS: October 1993
Liberal Response - government action to restore balance (broker state, "forgotten man," pump priming, 3Rs)
- Harlem
- Fiorella La Guardia
- Harry Hopkins
- NRA
- Jimmy Walker
- Triborough Bridge
- CWA
- Robert Moses
- PWA
- Harold Ickes
- Adam Clayton Powell
- Lino Rivera
- WPA
Featured Interviews:
- Curtis Roosevelt, grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Robert Weaver, economist with the Department of the Interior (later
- Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Johnson administration)
- Gore Vidal, grandson of Senator Thomas P. Gore (Oklahoma-D)
- Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, Federal Emergency Relief
- Administration
- Arthur Goldschmidt, Federal Emergency Relief Administration
- Pearl B. Max, New York City resident
- Ralph Fasanella, New York City resident
- Warren Moscow, reporter, The New York Times
Links:
New Deal/New York Guide from Blackside Films
revised 10/23/00 by Schoenherr