Ava Helen Pauling
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Ava Helen Pauling was an American human rights activist. Throughout her life, she was involved in various social movements including women's rights, racial equality, and international peace.
Ava Helen Pauling, Pasadena, California (1948)
Ava Helen Miller and Linus Pauling, Oregon Agricultural College Graduation Day, Corvallis, OR (1922)
New Deal
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The New Deal was a 1933–1938 series of economic, social, and political reforms in response to the Great Depression in the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He introduced the phrase
Ava Helen Pauling
…activist. Throughout her life, she was involved in various social movements including women's rights, racial equality, and international peace. An avid New Dealer, Ava Helen Pauling was heavily interested in American politics and social reforms. She is credited with introducing her husband, Linus Pauling, to the…
Top left: Signing of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, 1933 Top right: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Bottom: Works Progress Administration public mural
1935 cartoon by Vaughn Shoemaker in which he parodied the New Deal as a card game with alphabetical agencies
Roosevelt's ebullient public personality, conveyed through his declaration that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" and his "fireside chats" on the radio did a great deal to help restore the nation's confidence
Public Works Administration Project Bonneville Dam