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Movie Reviews
| The March of the Bonus Army. Prod. by Robert Uth and Glenn Marcus. New Voyage Communications, 2006. 30 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314; 800-531-4727; http://www.shoppbs.org/)
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| The PBS Home Video, The March of the Bonus Army, is image making and not solid history. The basic premises are seriously flawed, important information in the body of its argument is skewed, and the conclusions are taken out of historical context. |
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With high unemployment in 1894, Coxey's Army marched on Washington. It was Coxey's Army, not the bonus march of 1932, that opened the door for mass marches on Washington. Racial integration in the bonus march was not a primary issue in the defeat of the bonus legislation. Contrary to suggestions in the video, in World War I black French (colonial) units were not treated as equal to white units. |
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