How People Made Money During The Great Depression.
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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HOW PEOPLE MADE MONEY IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION
By Nelka Bailey and Hugo Varela
SOME PEOPLE
- Sold their kids
- Robed banks
- Some worked as migrant workers
Robbers
- Baby face Nelson
- Baron Lamm
- Bonnie and Clyde
MORE ON BARON LAMM
- He was a former German army officer
- He came to the United States after the war
- He used his military training to rob banks
- He was later killed in a shoot out near Sidell, Illinois
SELLING THEIR CHILDREN
People would sell their children to work as a farm hand a factor worker.
MANY PEOPLE WOULD MOVE AROUND LOOKING FOR WORK
- In 1937, a sociologist named Paul S. Taylor estimated
- That there was between 200,000 and 350,000 migrant workers
- Most where young men but sometime whole families would
- Pack up and go to work
