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One Thanksgiving or Two?
Author: Shannon Baker Moore
Series: Read With Highlights
Narrator: Highlights for Children
Unabridged: 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highlights
Published: 11/01/2018
Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Holidays & Celebrations, Thanksgiving, History, Us History, Readers, Intermediate
Synopsis
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.