We Too Are the People
By: [by] Louise V. Armstrong.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
Subjects: United States. Federal Emergency Relief Administration; Unemployed -- Michigan; Michigan -- Social conditions; Michigan -- Manistee
First sentence: The sound of tramping feet in a long hall, the noise of scuffling feet in a big room, the babble of human voices pitched in every key, mingle with other sounds in a ceaseless jazz symphony of human life.
Description: Mrs. Armstrong was a college educated social worker. She was appointed the Administrator of Emergency Relief for the Federal Emergency Relief program in Manistee County, Michigan. Her successful tenure lasted from September, 1933 until the Summer of 1936. This book relates some of her experiences and describes some of the social conditions which came to her attention through her work as Administrator.
Notes: "First edition."

The county in reference throughout the book is Manistee County, Michigan.

A quote from Eleanor Roosevelt reads: 

"I am also reading with a great deal of pleasure a book called "We Too Are The People," by Louise V. Armstrong. This is the story of a county in the state of Michigan, of its people and their struggles through the past few years. It is written with the obvious intention of making the nation realize that people on relief are still people, even as you and I. Some of them have a harder time over a long period due to circumstances which even you and I might not have met any more adequately. On some of them disaster has descended suddenly in a way it might descend on us. Added to the interest of the picture the author paints of the locality and its people, is the interest in the character of the writer, which merges without any apparent intention on her part. That character and personality must prove interesting and helpful to any of us."
Table of contents: pagenum: 3
label: I
class: chapter
title: The County; pagenum: 30
title: The County During The Crisis
class: chapter
label: II; pagenum: 57
title: Emergency Relief Begins
class: chapter
label: III; pagenum: 88
label: IV
class: chapter
title: Direct Relief and the Old Folks; pagenum: 120
label: V
class: chapter
title: Men In Boots; pagenum: 157
label: VI
class: chapter
title: Work Programs and Community Reactions; pagenum: 195
title: The Redskins
class: chapter
label: VII; pagenum: 226
label: VIII
class: chapter
title: "Government Food" and Allied Projects; pagenum: 267
label: IX
class: chapter
title: Our Big Business and Some Special Events; pagenum: 300
label: X
class: chapter
title: Women and Creeds and Christmas Toys; pagenum: 336
title: Wild Women
class: chapter
label: XI; pagenum: 381
title: The Trolls
class: chapter
label: XII; pagenum: 426
title: Young Citizens and Little Trees
class: chapter
label: XIII; pagenum: 460
label: XIV
class: chapter
title: Conclusion