President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

On Jan. 21, 1933 President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed an immense crowd a this crossing from his railroad car and promised "to put Muscle Shoals back on the map." He then toured the idle U.S,. Nitrate Plant No. 2 and ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1933 - 1945

The Great Depression 1929-1941

The depression was world-wide. In the U.S., the banking system collapsed and 12.8 million people were unemployed. Hardest hit were youth, minorities, the elderly, and workers in the consumer durables industries. There was widespread hunger ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Makes a Whistle-stop in Olat

"I am glad to get into Kansas again..."

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ("FDR") told the audience in Syracuse, Kansas in 1936. The president was returning to Washington, D.C. after a campaign trip by train to Colorado. When he reached Olathe at ...