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A New Democracy. Huey Long proposed a Share Our Wealth plan during the Great Depression to provide a decent standard of living to all Americans by spreading the nation's wealth among the people. Huey Long believed the nation's economic woes were the result of 95% of the wealth being held by only 15% of the population.
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Share Our Wealth was a movement that began in February 1934, during the Great Depression, by Huey Long, a governor and later United States Senator from Louisiana. Long first proposed the plan in a national radio address, which is now referred to as the "Share Our Wealth Speech".
Senator Huey P. Long, Statement of the Share Our Wealth movement (May 23, 1935). In Congressional Record, 74th Cong., 1st sess., Vol. 79, 8040-43. [Governor of Louisiana and then U.S. Senator, Long used his extensive power to control state politics, implement wide-ranging state reform programs, and attract millions of Americans to the Share Our ...
In 1934 Long organized his own, alternative political organization, the Share-Our-Wealth Society, through which he advocated a populist program for redistributing wealth through sharply graduated income and inheritance taxes. As his national recognition (and ambitions) grew, he spoke with increasing frequency to national radio audiences.
Huey Long, The Share Our Wealth Movement, and the Limits of Depression Dissidence By ALAN BRINKLEY Department of Humanities Massachusetts Institute of Technology For nearly four years-from his entrance into the United States Senate in 1932 until his violent death in 1935-Huey P. Long of Louisiana stood astride a national political movement of ...
One of Roosevelt’s most prominent opponents was Huey P. Long, who as a popular and reform-minded Democratic governor of Louisiana took on the oil industry and built a powerful state political organization.
