GREAT DEPRESSION: EFFECTS and CONDITIONS 1929-1940.

GREAT DEPRESSION: GREAT DEPRESSION: EFFECTS and CONDITIONSEFFECTS and CONDITIONS

1929-19401929-1940

The Great DepressionThe Great Depression• I. EffectsI. Effects

– A. Bank FailuresA. Bank Failures

Brother Can You Spare A Dime

•I. EffectsI. Effects

•B. UnemploymentB. Unemployment (Imagine (Imagine Scenario/David Kennedy)Scenario/David Kennedy)

–1931: 100,000 men at Rose Bowl1931: 100,000 men at Rose Bowl

–Announce: Everyone is out of workAnnounce: Everyone is out of work

–62,000 = unemployed at least a one year 62,000 = unemployed at least a one year layofflayoff

–44,000 = given at least two-year layoff44,000 = given at least two-year layoff

–24,000 = given at least three-year layoff24,000 = given at least three-year layoff

–11,000 = given at least four-year layoff11,000 = given at least four-year layoff

–Repeated every Sat. for 130 Sat. Repeated every Sat. for 130 Sat.

–Accurate to the speed & volume of Accurate to the speed & volume of DepressionDepression

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Why no violent Revolution as a result? Why Why no violent Revolution as a result? Why were some people passive and receptive to were some people passive and receptive to leadership?leadership?

The Great DepressionThe Great Depression•II. American People in Hard TimesII. American People in Hard Times

•A. Businessmen & HomelessnessA. Businessmen & Homelessness

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•A. Businessmen & HomelessnessA. Businessmen & Homelessness•““In Chicago, a crowd of some fifty hungry men fought In Chicago, a crowd of some fifty hungry men fought over a barrel of garbage set outside the back door of a over a barrel of garbage set outside the back door of a restaurant; in Stockton, California, men scoured the city restaurant; in Stockton, California, men scoured the city dump near the San Joaquin River to retrieve half-rotted dump near the San Joaquin River to retrieve half-rotted vegetables. The Commissioner of charity in Salt Lake vegetables. The Commissioner of charity in Salt Lake City disclosed that scores of people were slowly starving, City disclosed that scores of people were slowly starving, because neither county nor private relief funds were because neither county nor private relief funds were adequate, and hundreds of children were kept out of adequate, and hundreds of children were kept out of school because they had nothing to wear.”school because they had nothing to wear.” Quoted from Quoted from Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New DealFranklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal , by William , by William LeuchtenburgLeuchtenburg

• ““We have been eating wild greens,” We have been eating wild greens,” wrote a coal miner from Kentucky’s wrote a coal miner from Kentucky’s Harlan County. “Such as Polk salad. Harlan County. “Such as Polk salad. Violet tops, wild onions, forget me not Violet tops, wild onions, forget me not wild lettuce and such weeds as cows wild lettuce and such weeds as cows eat as a cow wont eat a poison eat as a cow wont eat a poison weeds.” Quoted from weeds.” Quoted from Franklin D. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New DealRoosevelt and the New Deal, by , by William LeuchtenburgWilliam Leuchtenburg

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•B. ChildrenB. Children

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•II. American People in Hard TimesII. American People in Hard Times

•C. Dust Bowl & FarmersC. Dust Bowl & Farmers

Sam Nichols, tenant farmer, Boone County, Arkansas, October 1935

Home of agricultural day laborer's family who cared for his tubercular wife and two children. Poteau Creek near Spiro, Oklahoma

• II. American People in Hard TimesII. American People in Hard Times

• D. Migrant WorkersD. Migrant Workers

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The Great DepressionThe Great Depression• II. American People in Hard TimesII. American People in Hard Times

• E. WomenE. Women

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• F. FamilyF. Family

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• G. African AmericansG. African Americans

• 1. Experiences1. Experiences

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• G. African AmericansG. African Americans

• 2. Scottsboro Case, 19312. Scottsboro Case, 1931

• 9 black teenagers taken off train in 9 black teenagers taken off train in Alabama = arrested for vagrancy & Alabama = arrested for vagrancy & disorderdisorder

• Later, two white women on train Later, two white women on train accused them of rapeaccused them of rape

• Overwhelming evidence (medical & Overwhelming evidence (medical & otherwise) that women not raped = otherwise) that women not raped = maybe feared accusations & arrestmaybe feared accusations & arrest

• All-white jury convicted “Scottsboro All-white jury convicted “Scottsboro boys” = sentenced to deathboys” = sentenced to death

• 1932 = Supreme Court overturned 1932 = Supreme Court overturned convictions & start new trialsconvictions & start new trials

• International Labor Defense & later International Labor Defense & later NAACP assistant & get publicity & NAACP assistant & get publicity & continue through 1930scontinue through 1930s

• White southern juries don’t acquit but:White southern juries don’t acquit but:

• 4 = charges dropped, 4 = early parole, 4 = charges dropped, 4 = early parole, 1 = escaped (but last one didn’t leave 1 = escaped (but last one didn’t leave prison until 1950)prison until 1950)

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• H. Mexican AmericansH. Mexican Americans