End Poverty in California.
Campaign sign preserved at the Oakland Museum.
End Poverty in California.
Campaign sign preserved at the Oakland Museum.
End Poverty in California. Artifacts from the momentous 1934 governor’s race, preserved in the Oakland Museum.
As the curatorial note drily avers: “Some radical reformers, like novelist Upton Sinclair, advocated pension plans, taxes on the wealthy and corporations, and state ownership of factories and farms. Conservatives defended capitalism.”