Childhood Aspirations
Huey Long showed ambition from a young age.
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Childhood Aspirations
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Huey Long showed ambition from a young age.
Huey Long was born in 1893, the seventh of nine children. He grew up in Louisiana’s Winn Parish, a deeply impoverished region He showed ambition from a young age as a member of the debate team, and expressed a desire to one day fix up and bring new resources to the town he grew up in.
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Childhood Aspirations
Clip: Episode 1 | 2m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
Huey Long was born in 1893, the seventh of nine children. He grew up in Louisiana’s Winn Parish, a deeply impoverished region He showed ambition from a young age as a member of the debate team, and expressed a desire to one day fix up and bring new resources to the town he grew up in.
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