Title: Objective: To examine the Dust Bowl and the treatment of minorities during the Depression.
1Objective To examine the Dust Bowl and the
treatment of minorities during the
Depression. Mr. Jeff Rainer 2009
2Living in the Great Depression
- Bread Lines
- Soup Kitchens
- Shantytowns
- Dust Bowl
- Migrants
- Hoboes
- YouTube - The Great Depression Documentary Part 1
of 2
3Bread Lines and Soup Kitchens
- Mostly funded by private charities
- Gave relief to homeless and unemployed
- Fed hundreds of people at a time
4Shantytowns
- Even people with jobs could not always afford
decent housing - Shantytowns began to develop on the outskirts of
cities - Came to be known as Hoovervilles
5Causes Effects of Dust Bowl
Effects
Causes
- Over-farming of mid-western land depleted soil
quality - Drought (lack of rain) caused soil to dry out
into fine dust
- Farm production decreased
- Many mid-western farmers became broke
- Dust Storms
6The Dust Bowl
- During the 1930s, the Great Plains suffered
from deadly dust storms.
7Causes of the Dust Bowl
- Overgrazing by cattle and plowing by farmers
destroyed the grasses that once held down the
soil. - YouTube - U.S. Dust Bowl of 1930's
8- The loose soil, a drought, and high winds helped
to cause the Dust Bowl.
Dust Storms "Kodak view of a dust storm Baca
Co., Colorado, Easter Sunday 1935
9Dust Storms "One of South Dakota's Black
Blizzards, 1934"
10Farmer and sons, dust storm, Cimarron County,
Oklahoma, 1936. YouTube - The Great Dust Storms
- a Ken Burns style video
11Effects of the Dust Bowl
- Farmers could barely make a living, causing many
to leave their homes for the west. - YouTube - Dust Bowl Blues
Farm foreclosure sale. (Circa 1933)
12Farm foreclosure sale in Iowa. (Circa 1933)
13- Many farmers became migrant farmers as they
moved from region to region looking for work.
Farm Security Administration Families on the
road with all their possessions packed into their
trucks, migrating and looking for work. (Circa
1935)
14Farm Security Administration farmers whose
topsoil blew away joined the sod caravans of
"Okies" on Route 66 to California. (Circa 1935)
YouTube - Dust Bowl Refugee-- Woody Guthrie
15Farm Security Administration Migrant worker on
California highway. (Circa 1935)
16Toward Los Angeles, California. 1937. (Dorothea
Lange.) Perhaps 2.5 million people abandoned
their homes in the South and the Great Plains
during the Great Depression and went on the road.
17Migrant family looking for work in the pea fields
of California. (Circa 1935)
18- Migrant farmers from Arkansas became known as
Arkies.
Farm Security AdministrationArkansas squatter
for three years near Bakefield, California. Photo
by D. Lange. (Circa 1935)
19- Migrant farmers from Oklahoma became known as
Okies.
Young Oklahoma mother age 18, penniless,
stranded in Imperial Valley, California.
20Dorothea 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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22African-Americans
- Depression made hard times even worse for
African-Americans - 50 Unemployment among African-Americans
- Increased Racial Violence
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