List of possible topics for Presentations

People

Amelia Earhart, aviation

Herbert Hoover, politician

Frankin D. Roosevelt, politician

Richard Correl, artist

Thomas Hart Benton, artist

Jean Harlow, actress

Edward Hopper, artist

Joe Hill, labor leader

Huey Long, politican

Bonnie and Clyde, bank robbers

John Dillinger, bank robber

Al Capone, gangster and mafia boss

Sinclair Lewis, writer

Mabel Dwight, painter from Ohio

Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer

Joe Lewis, boxer

Al Capone, mob boss

Lou Gehrig, baseball star

Che Guevara, rebel

Dorthea Lange, photographer

Bing Crosby, singer

Events

NRA act.  National Recovery Administration

Auto-Lite strike in Toledo, Ohio

The Dust Bowl

Prohibition and its repeal

Smoot-Harley tariffs

Completion of the Empire State Building

Opening of the Golden Gate bridge

Lake Placid Olympics in New York

Battle of Matewan

Child Labor Amendment

Building Hoover Dam

18^th and 21^st amendments

KKK reaches peak influence

1^st freeway in L.A.

Lincoln Tunnel in NYC built

Seabisquit achives fame

The Harlem Renessance

Black Tuesday Oct. 29, 1929

Groups and Organizations

Share our Wealth Society

Famers Security Administraton

National Union for Social Justice

Bonus Army, veterans of World War I (also an event, as they protested in D.C., to tragic results)

Civilian Conservation Corps C.C. C.

Works Progress Administration W.P.A.

S.E.C. Securities and Exchange Commision

Y.M.C.A.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Federal Reserve
March of Dimes