Pressure from businesses and stores convinced FDR to try making Thanksgiving a week earlier than usual during the Great Depression. However, the change caused so much confusion and even anger that Congress passed a law declaring Thanksgiving would always be the fourth Thursday in November.
Highlights
One Thanksgiving or Two?
Shannon Baker Moore
People & Places
Thanksgiving, President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Great Depression, holiday, American History, male, calendar, date, culture and history
HL
721
C1
English
9781683296430
Pressure from businesses and stores convinced FDR to try making Thanksgiving a week earlier than usual during the Great Depression. However, the change caused so much confusion and even anger that Congress passed a law declaring Thanksgiving would always be the fourth Thursday in November.
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