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Trout, Charles H. Boston, the Great Depression, and the New Deal (1977) online; Uys, Errol Lincoln. Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression (Routledge, 2003) ISBN 0-415-94575-5 author's site; Warren, Harris Gaylord. Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (1959). scholarly history online; Watkins, T. H.
Walker Evans photograph of three sharecroppers, Frank Tengle, Bud Fields, and Floyd Burroughs, Alabama, summer 1936. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men grew out of an assignment that Agee and Evans accepted in 1936 to produce a Fortune article on the conditions among sharecropper families in the American South during the Great Depression.
This new work force of unskilled migrant families from the Dust Bowl now took their place and helped coin the term pea-pickers. The Dust Bowl was a severe environmental disaster that struck the Great Plains region of the United States during the 1930s, exacerbating the economic hardships of the Great Depression.
Practically everyone had a backyard garden during the Depression, and to this day, the term "Depression Garden" lingers.Families desperate to pinch pennies found it was much cheaper to grow their ...
Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. [1]
Florence Owens Thompson (born Florence Leona Christie; September 1, 1903 – September 16, 1983) was an American woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression. The Library of Congress titled the image: "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children.
The researchers examined data from 832 participants in the U.S. Health and Retirement Study, all of whom were born in the 1930s during the Great Depression—the worst economic downturn in the ...
In 1941, Evans' photographs and Agee's text detailing the duo's stay with three White tenant families in southern Alabama during the Great Depression were published as the groundbreaking book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. [13] Its detailed account of three farming families paints a deeply moving portrait of rural poverty.