Primary source: Huey Long, Share Our Wealth,1935 1.What does Long’s program promise the ordinary people of Depression-era America? How does he

Primary source: Huey Long, Share Our Wealth,1935

1.What does Long’s program promise the ordinary people of Depression-era America? How does he propose to implement it?

2.What links can you find between Long’s program and earlier reform and protest movement?

Primary source: Father Charles E. Coughlin, “A Third Party” (1936)

1.What factors, according to Coughlin, are responsible for the depression of the U.S economy? What solutions does he offer?

2.How does Coughlin use the biblical image of Jesus driving moneychangers from the temple to characterize Roosevelt’s promise and subsequent failure to deliver on that promise?