THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 1930

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THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 1930S

• Brother can you
• spare a dime?

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STOCK MARKET CRASH OF 1929

• Black Thursday,
• October 24, 1929
• Black Tuesday,
• October 29, 1929

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STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN SOCIETY DISINTEGRATES

• Factories and mines close
• Banks are worthless
• Consumer buying comes
• to a standstill

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1932 AMERICAN DREAMS ARE SHATTERED

• 14 million Americans are jobless (almost 1/3 the
  workforce)
• Banks foreclose on houses and farms
• No food, no clothes, no jobs
• Recycled lifestyle

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DUST BOWL (DUST STORMS) OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS
1934-1935
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Black SundayApril 14, 1935

• 24 hours of a blinding dust storm
• Dreaded black-blizzard covers entire disaster
  area
• Drought adds further devastation

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THE VICTIMS OF THE DUST BOWL

• Colorado
• Kansas
• Oklahoma
• New Mexico
• Texas

• Devastation of their cropland
• Respiratory health issues
• Unsanitary living
• Rampant crime
• Debt-ridden families

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DUST BOWL ORPHANS

• Mass exodus to California
• Opportunities in Russia
• Migrant workers become source of cheap labor

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RESOURCES

• Angelis, Therese. The Dust Bowl. Philadelphia
  Chelsea House Pub., c1989.
• Farris, John. The dust bowl. San Diego Lucent
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  Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1968.
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  Depression. New York Franklin Watts, c1978.
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• The American Memory Collection.
• The American Experience Surviving the Dust Bowl.

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SOURCE INFORMATION FOR SLIDES 12OF POWER POINT
PRESENTATION

• Slide 1 Son of farmer in dust bowl area.
  April, 1936 photograph
• Rothstein, Arthur, photographer. Used by
  permission of the Library of
• Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
  Washington, DC 20540.
• Source America from the Great Depression to
  World War II Photo-
• graphs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Digital ID
  (bw film copy of
• negative of print)cph3c30123
• Slide 2 Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in
  town. June, c1937
• photograph Dorthea Lange, photographer. Used by
  permission of the
• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
  Division, Washington, DC
• 20540. Source America from the Great Depression
  to World War II
• Photographs from the FSA-OWI,1935-1945. Digital
  ID (int. film)
• Fsa8b38645.

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SOURCE INFORMATION FOR SLIDES 34OF POWER POINT
PRESENTATION

• Slide 3 Abandoned farm in the dust bowl area,
  Oklahoma. April,
• C1936. photograph Arthur Rothstein,
  photographer. Used by
• permission of the Library of Congress Prints and
  Photographs Division,
• Washington, DC 20540. Source America from the
  Great Depression to
• World War II Photographs from the FSA-OWI,
  1935-1945. Digital ID
• (int. film)fsa8b38293.
• Slide 4 Along a California highway, a dust bowl
  refugee bound for
• Oregon. March, 1937.photograph Dorothea Lange,
  photographer.
• Used by permission of the Library of Congress
  Prints and Photographs
• Division, Washington, DC 20540. Source America
  from the Great
• Depression to World War II Photographs from the
  FSA-OWI, 1935-1945.
• Digital ID (intermediary roll film) fsa8b31789.
• .

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SOURCE INFORMATION FOR SLIDES 56OF POWER POINT
PRESENTATION

• Slide 5 Home of a dust bowl refugee in
  California. March, 1937.
• photograph Dorothea Lange, photographer. Used
  by permission of
• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
  Division, Washington, DC
• Source America from the Great Depression to
  World War II
• Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Digital
  ID (intermediary
• roll film)fsa8b31760.
• Slide 6 Oklahoma dust bowl refugees. San
  Fernando, California.
• June, 1935. photograph Dorothea Lange,
  photographer. Used by
• Permission of Library of Congress Prints and
  Photographs Division,
• Washington, DC 20540. Source America from the
  Great Depression to
• World War II Photographs from the FSA-OWI,
  1935-1945. Digital ID
• (intermediary roll film) fsa8b27316.

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SOURCE INFORMATION FOR SLIDES 78OF POWER POINT
PRESENTATION

• Slide 7 Squatter camp on county road near
  Calipatria. Forty
• families from the dust bowl have been camped here
  for months on the
• edge of the pea fields. There has been no work
  because the crop was
• frozen. March, 1937. photograph Dorothea
  Lange, photographer.
• Used by permission of Library of Congress Prints
  and Photographs
• Division Washington, DC 20540. Source America
  from the Great
• Depression to World War II Photographs from the
  FSA-OWI, 1935-1945.
• Digital ID (intermediary roll film) fsa8b31762.
• Slide 8 Migrant agricultural workers family.
  Seven children
• without food. March, 1935. photograph Dorothea
  Lange,photographer.
• Used by permission of Library of Congress Prints
  and Photographs
• Division Washington, DC 20540. Source America
  from the Great
• Depression to World War II. Digital ID(bw copy
  scan)fsa8b29525

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SOURCE INFORMATION FOR SLIDES 910 OF POWER POINT
PRESENTATION

• Slide 9 Mother washing feet and cleaning up
  daughters in
• Sharecroppers shack. Southeast Missouri Farms.
  May, 1938.
• photograph Russell Lee, photographer. Used by
  permission of
• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
  Division Washington, DC
• 20540. Source America from the Great Depression
  to World War II
• Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Digital
  ID(bw film copy
• of negative print) cph3c18449.
• Slide 10 Construction worker with wife and
  neighbors child in tent
• home near Alexandria, Louisiana. Ten men, two
  women, and two
• children live here. December, 1940. photograph
  Marion Post Wolcott,
• Photographer. Used by permission of Library of
  Congress Prints and
• Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540.
  Source America from the
• Great Depression to World War II. Digital ID
  (int.roll film)fsa8c14455.