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