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The Bonus Marchers
1932 was a rough year in the old U.S of A. The Great Depression was in full swing and many people were out of a job. The unemployment rate was over 15% and climbing. People were starving with no hope and no way out. There had been unrest beginning in December 1931, when a small hunger march on Washington was led by the communist party. A few weeks later a Pittsburgh priest led 12,000 men to Washington to advocate for unemployment rights. Riots broke out at a Ford plant in Michigan and left four dead and fifty wounded. By May 1932, tensions were high. That was when the Bonus Expeditionary…