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Black Tuesday and the Great Depression in Washington
Washington faced the stock market crash of October 29 1929 known as Black Tuesday as New York records and bank losses mounted. The era of easy money ended with widespread poverty, bank failures, and mass unemployment leading into Franklin D Roosevelt's 1933 presidency.
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