Images of the Great Depression By Alex Glade Omaha North High School alex'gladeops'org

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Images of the Great DepressionBy Alex
GladeOmaha North High Schoolalex.glade_at_ops.org
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• One man wrote in a newspaper in 1932, I am
  forty-eight married twenty-one years four
  children, three in school. For the last eight
  years I was employed as a Pullman conductor.
  Since September, 1930, they have given me seven
  months part-time work. Today I am an object of
  charity. . . . My small, weak, and frail wife and
  two small children are suffering and I have come
  to that terrible place where I could easily
  resort to violence in my desperation.
• Imagine you are in this situation.
• Describe what your life would be like.
• How would you react?

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Unemployed Men's ShacksLocation New York,
NYDate Feb 16, 1932
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Discussion Points

• Hoovervilles
• Why was Hoover blamed for the depression?
• Homelessness
• Government programs to help the homeless

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Hunger Line - 6th Ave 42nd St.Location New
York, NYDate Feb., 1932
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Discussion Points

• Breadlines
• Charitable Organizations
• Rugged Individualism
• Role of Government in the economy

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Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother," destitute in a
pea picker's camp, because of the failure of the
early pea crop. These people had just sold their
tent in order to buy food. Most of the 2,500
people in this camp were destitute. By the end of
the decade there were still 4 million migrants on
the road.
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Discussion Points

• Migrant Workers
• Okies
• Government programs to record conditions of the
  Depression

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Farmer and sons...dust storm, Cimarron County,
Oklahoma. 1936.
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Discussion Points

• Dust Bowl
• Causes
• Effect of Dust Bowl on Farmers

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Bud Fields and his familyAlabama. 1935 or 1936.
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Discussion Points

• Rural Poverty
• Family Structure (extended families)
• Programs to help rural residents

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Unemployed men vying for jobs at the American
Legion Employment Bureau in Los Angeles during
the Great Depression.
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Discussion Points

• Unemployment
• Government Programs to Help

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• Your task is to create a product that
  explains what it was like to live during the
  Great Depression. This product must use stories
  from actual people to relay the hardships they
  faced. You may find people's stories on the
  websites below or you may do your own searches,
  but make sure you are including things that
  happened to actual people.

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• Your final product may be a diary that
  could've been written by someone living during
  the depression (this must include a minimum of 3
  entries that are 1-2 paragraphs per entry), a
  mural (this will be drawn out on paper. It must
  illustrate the hardships and must include color),
  or you may write a song to relay the hardships
  people faced. Whichever option you choose, make
  sure your final product includes information from
  oral histories and that it is well-done and free
  from errors.
• http//lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/exinterv.html
  
• http//www2.actden.com/writ_den/h15/Level3/page1.h
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• http//www.mcsc.k12.in.us/madedo/oralhist/