Price, Leo collection

Collection

Price, Leo collection

• 1932-1936 (Creation)

1 Box

The Leo Price Collection contains a single scrapbook compiled by Leo Price which chronicles the story of the Bonus Expeditionary Forces, an assemblage of approximately 43,000 protesters - some 17,000 of which were World War I veterans and their families - who marched on Washington in 1932 under the encouragement of retired U.S.M.C. Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler. The veterans, many of whom had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression, demanded immediate cash payment of Service Certificates granted to them eight years earlier via the Adjusted Service Certificate Law of 1924. The march was suppressed by the U.S. army under the leadership of Douglas MacArthur and George S. Patton.

The scrapbook tells the story by means of newspaper clippings, photographs, and a piece of fabric.

This collection is open for research.

Leo Price Collection Finding Aid © 2009 University of Miami. All rights reserved. Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.

• English

• Depressions -- 1929 -- United States
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans

• Bonus Expeditionary Forces (Subject)
• Butler, Smedley D. (Smedley Darlington), 1881-1940 (Subject)

• Scrapbooks