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GREAT DEPRESSION PHOTO ESSAY
"As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour".
"Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13".
"What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United States. And then, of course, we had the Great Depression".
During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks
"In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy".
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- Website Title: BrainyQuote
Article Title: Great Depression Quotes
Publisher: Xplore
Date Accessed: April 01, 2015
- Website Title: Shmoop.com
Article Title: The Great Depression Photos
Publisher: Shmoop University, Inc.
Electronically Published: November 11, 2008
Date Accessed: April 01, 2015
Author: Shmoop Editorial Team