note page 37 life during the great depression by morgan j. burris lexington middle school us history
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Note Page 37“Life During the Great
Depression”
By Morgan J. Burris Lexington Middle School
US History
Struggling to Get By:
Bread lines / Soup KitchensFree Handouts – Churches…
YMCA’s - Young Men’s Christian Assc.
Bailiffs –Police boot non-paying renters
Hoovervilles – Shantytowns of homeless and broke
Hobos – hitching wanderers, mostly single men
The Dust Bowl:
Lost of Native Grasses
Fields abandoned, uncovered.
Terrible Drought 1930’s strikes
- Vast “Dust Bowl”
Huge dust storms, suffocating people
& livestock
Buried crops, equipment, buildings.
Mortgaged farms lost to banks
US actually paid
photographers to go out west and document the effects
on America.
“Okies” – thousands migrate to CA
Hollywood:
Shirley Temple – Child star
Groucho Marx – Comedian
Walt Disney – Animation
Jimmy Stewart – Mr. Nice GuyFamous Actor
Clark Gable - Mr. HandsomeFamous Actor
On the Air:
Daily Radio Broadcast
- Jack Benny
- George Burns & Gracie Allen
Jack Benny
- Green Hornet
- Lone Ranger!
Soap Operas – are born
Literature and Art:
John Steinbeck – The Grape of Wrath – Family fleeing Dust Bowl for California.
Literature and Art:
William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury- Used stream of Consciousness technique- Hear what character is thinking…
Literature and Art:
Photography - Time & Life Magazines- Best selling immediately, photo documentary
The difference between black and
white during this time….
Gordon Parks (first Black photographer for Life) most famous photograph, “American Gothic” (1942) shows a black woman posed in front of an American flag with a
broom and mop at hand, illustrating the social divide and inequality of not only America, but the hierarchy of gender.
Literature and Art:
American Gothic Art Style - Regional Style,Rural no-nonsense Midwesterners….
Little help for the minorities…
• Louisville Flood Victims 1937 by Margeret Bourke-White• Over 400 killed, thousands displaced, little financial help for
very poor blacks living in Ohio River Valley
Note Page 37“Life During the Great
Depression”
By Morgan J. Burris Lexington Middle School
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