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Hoovervilles are part of James Lincoln Collier's 2000 history book The Worst of Times: A Story of the Great Depression. The Talespin comic book The Long Flight Home portrays a Hooverville filled with anthropomorphic-animals. Kit Cloudkicker was also a resident of it before joining Don Karnage's air pirates.
Migrants often found themselves living in squalid conditions in makeshift camps and shantytowns without adequate sanitation, clean water, or medical care. These camps, sometimes derogatorily called "Hoovervilles," after President Herbert Hoover, were characterized by overcrowding and lack of basic amenities.
Many small independents operated decentralized, locally owned and locally oriented telephone networks that offered cheaper but mediocre quality service to a small towns and rural areas, and did not provide long distance. [98] [99] By 1912 there were 3200 rural telephone systems, doubling by 1927. Most were not-for-profit cooperatives that were ...
In the "First New Deal" of 1933–34, a wide variety of programs were targeted toward the depression and agriculture in rural areas, in the banking industry, and for the economy as a whole. Relief programs were set up for the long-term unemployed who are routinely passed over whenever new jobs did open up.
Antebellum Louisiana was a leading slave state, where by 1860, 47% of the population was enslaved. Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, joining the Confederate States of America. New Orleans, the largest city in the entire South at the time, and strategically important port city, was taken by Union troops on April 25, 1862.
He donated five lots to St. Matthews Episcopal Church on Barrow Street in Houma, Louisiana, valued at $1000 (~$25,795 in 2023) at that time on June 7, 1857. On September 1, 1857, he donated four lots on the corner of School Street and Goode Street in Houma worth $8000 (~$206,363 in 2023) to the Church of Presbyterian Congregation.
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Huey Pierce Long Jr. was born on August 30, 1893, near Winnfield, a small town in north-central Louisiana, the seat of Winn Parish. [1] Although Long often told followers he was born in a log cabin to an impoverished family, they lived in a "comfortable" farmhouse and were well-off compared to others in Winnfield.