New Deal & Postwar

Elsie Parrish, a chambermaid at a hotel in Wenatchee, Washington, sued for the difference between her pay and the state minimum wa...

Roscoe Filburn, an Ohio farmer, grew more wheat than his allotment under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, intending to fee...

Children of Jehovah's Witness families in West Virginia were expelled for refusing on religious grounds to salute the flag, a requ...

Fred Korematsu, an American citizen of Japanese descent, refused to leave his California home under military orders issued pursuan...

J.D. and Ethel Shelley, a Black family, bought a house in St. Louis covered by a covenant barring sale to Black buyers, and white ...

Facing a nationwide steel strike during the Korean War in 1952, President Harry Truman ordered Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer t...