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Title: GREAT DEPRESSION: EFFECTS and CONDITIONS


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GREAT DEPRESSION EFFECTS and CONDITIONS
1929-1940
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The Great Depression
  • I. Effects
  • A. Bank Failures

Brother Can You Spare A Dime
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The Great Depression
  • I. Effects
  • B. Unemployment (Imagine Scenario/David Kennedy)
  • 1931 100,000 men at Rose Bowl
  • Announce Everyone is out of work
  • 62,000 unemployed at least a one year layoff
  • 44,000 given at least two-year layoff
  • 24,000 given at least three-year layoff
  • 11,000 given at least four-year layoff
  • Repeated every Sat. for 130 Sat.
  • Accurate to the speed volume of Depression

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Why no violent Revolution as a result? Why were
some people passive and receptive to leadership?
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The Great Depression
  • II. American People in Hard Times
  • A. Businessmen Homelessness

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The Great Depression
  • II. American People in Hard Times
  • A. Businessmen Homelessness
  • In Chicago, a crowd of some fifty hungry men
    fought over a barrel of garbage set outside the
    back door of a restaurant in Stockton,
    California, men scoured the city dump near the
    San Joaquin River to retrieve half-rotted
    vegetables. The Commissioner of charity in Salt
    Lake City disclosed that scores of people were
    slowly starving, because neither county nor
    private relief funds were adequate, and hundreds
    of children were kept out of school because they
    had nothing to wear. Quoted from Franklin D.
    Roosevelt and the New Deal, by William
    Leuchtenburg

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The Great Depression
  • II. American People in Hard Times
  • B. Children
  • We have been eating wild greens, wrote a coal
    miner from Kentuckys Harlan County. Such as
    Polk salad. Violet tops, wild onions, forget me
    not wild lettuce and such weeds as cows eat as a
    cow wont eat a poison weeds. Quoted from
    Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, by
    William Leuchtenburg

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The Great Depression
  • II. American People in Hard Times
  • C. Dust Bowl Farmers

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Sam Nichols, tenant farmer, Boone County,
Arkansas, October 1935
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Home of agricultural day laborer's family who
cared for his tubercular wife and two children.
Poteau Creek near Spiro, Oklahoma
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The Great Depression
  • II. American People in Hard Times
  • D. Migrant Workers

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The Great Depression
  • II. American People in Hard Times
  • E. Women

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The Great Depression
  • II. American People in Hard Times
  • F. Family

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The Great Depression
  • II. American People in Hard Times
  • G. African Americans
  • 1. Experiences

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The Great Depression
  • II. American People in Hard Times
  • G. African Americans
  • 2. Scottsboro Case, 1931
  • 9 black teenagers taken off train in Alabama
    arrested for vagrancy disorder
  • Later, two white women on train accused them of
    rape
  • Overwhelming evidence (medical otherwise) that
    women not raped maybe feared accusations
    arrest
  • All-white jury convicted Scottsboro boys
    sentenced to death
  • 1932 Supreme Court overturned convictions
    start new trials
  • International Labor Defense later NAACP
    assistant get publicity continue through
    1930s
  • White southern juries dont acquit but
  • 4 charges dropped, 4 early parole, 1
    escaped (but last one didnt leave prison until
    1950)

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The Great Depression
  • II. American People in Hard Times
  • H. Mexican Americans
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