The impact of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal on the United States and in New Mexico is still felt today. To help understand FDR’s influence on history, both locally and nationally, a special six-city tour, “The Impact of the New Deal on the United States and New Mexico,” by scholar Richard Marold portraying Roosevelt is set on Monday, April 14, at 7 p.m. in University of New Mexico-Gallup’s Calvin Hall Auditorium.
This Chautauqua Lecture Series presentation marks the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, a program Roosevelt established to bring the United States out of the Depression. Some of the programs launched in that era (1933-1945) were the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps, which had a huge impact on New Mexico and the nation.
Sponsors of this lecture series include the New Mexico Humanities Council, the Historical Society of New Mexico and the Achieving the Dream grant initiative of UNM-Gallup.
The Chautauqua Institution was founded in 1874 near the village of Chautauqua, N.Y., as an educational experiment in out-of-school, vacation learning. Today the institution offers many programs in the humanities at varying levels, from summer learner to professional.
For more information, contact Bernadette Fontenelle at UNM-Gallup, 863-7771.