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  • History class organizes to fight hunger

    Apr 4, 2017 9:00 am by Logan WeeterOutreachStudent Experiences
    Conner Weber, a student at Illinois, unloads boxes for a food drive inspired in part by a history class on the Great Depression. Photo courtesy of Leslie Reagan.

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    • Conner Weber, a student at Illinois, unloads boxes for a food drive inspired in part by a history class on the Great Depression. Photo courtesy of Leslie Reagan.

    It started as Leslie Reagan taught her United States history class about the Great Depression and the New Deal. “A third of the country was out of work, and people were starving.”