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anonymous

Repatriation During the Great Depression - 0 views

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#class #immigrants #GreatDepression

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  • anonymous on 07 Oct 13
     
    This article focuses lightly on the issues of immigrants during the Great Depression. This article came from the Digital History Web site. I neglected the idea of immigration during the Great Depression.
anonymous

African Americans, Impact of the Great Depression on - 0 views

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#class #AfricaAmericansDuringTheDepression #race

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  • anonymous on 07 Oct 13
     
    I found a great reference regarding the Great Depression and the impact on African Americans. I wanted to incorporate some of the ideas from the first unit. The information from the first unit will help us to better understand the information of the second unit. This reference also had a lot of great images. The Great Depression everyone.
anonymous

About the Great Depression - 1 views

www.english.illinois.edu/...about.htm

#class #GreatDepression #InternationalDepression

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  • anonymous on 07 Oct 13
     
    This is another article on the Great Depression. The reason why I included this article is because it included maps that I thought were very helpful. The article also mentioned some political implications of the Great Depression.
anonymous

Girl from iconic Great Depression photo: 'We were ashamed' - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...dustbowl.photo

#class #GreatDepression #migrant

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  • anonymous on 07 Oct 13
     
    I also found this article to be interesting. Most, if not all people, were affected by the Great Depression. This is one of the many iconic photographs of a family during the Great Depression. Katherine McIntosh was very young when the picture was taken of her family. It just shows that the Great Depression was not only a problem for adults--it affected everyone.
anonymous

A Short History of the Great Depression - 0 views

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#race #GreatDepression #NewDeal

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  • anonymous on 07 Oct 13
     
    I thought that this is a great article to start this week's assignment off with. I am unfamiliar with the true history of the Great Depression. I have not studied these topics in years, so this refresher was needed. I hope that you all are able to find this article useful.
David Martinez

RA (Resettlement Administration) - 0 views

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#GreatDepression #america

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  • David Martinez on 06 Oct 13
     
    This photograph was taken at the time the United States government had created the RA (Resettlement Administration) program which consisted of moving farmers to a 100,000 acre piece of land to improve the living conditions of the sharecroppers. This program was sponsored by the FSA (Farm Security Administration) by the U.S. in order to help the American farmers during the harsh "great depression." The Burroughs' were a part of the resettlement.
David Martinez

Facial Expression! - 0 views

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  • David Martinez on 06 Oct 13
     
    This website shows the face of Ms. Ellie Mae Burroughs. And, by just looking at her, we can see that first of all, she is not happy. Her face is thin, her chin is long, and the circles around her eyes show a sense of tiredness. Her yes say such much more than they can say. A hopeful woman in desperate times.
David Martinez

A picture really is worth more than one thousand words! - 0 views

www.thedailybeast.com/...-celebrated-and-explained.html

#GreatDepression #america

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  • David Martinez on 06 Oct 13
     
    A picture really is worth more than one thousand words. This photograph represents the "great depression" of the 1930s. It is so relevant to history because it shows the spirit and the sadness that this historical period left in the regular American citizens. Looking at Ms. Ellie Mae Burroughs we can deduce that "hard times" were present at the time. The American economy had plummeted to the bottom and there were no jobs, therefore, hardly anything to eat. This picture is so representative of a bad economic time.
David Martinez

Ms. Ellie Mae Burroughs - 0 views

www.amazon.com/...B00846931Y

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  • David Martinez on 06 Oct 13
     
    This website shows the face of Ms. Ellie Mae Burroughs. And, by just looking at her, we can see that first of all, she is not happy. Her face is thin, her chin is long, and the circles around her eyes show a sense of tiredness. Her yes say such much more than they can say. A hopeful woman in desperate times.
Anamaria Liriano

Hoovervilles and Homelessness - 0 views

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#class #hoovervilles #thegreatdepresssion

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  • Anamaria Liriano on 06 Oct 13
     
    Here "hoovervilles" are discussed: the origin and meaning of the term, what basic hoovervilles generally were like, and interestingly enough, the history and existence of Hooverviles in Washington state. Although the subject in the photograph was from the south and that area came with its own sort of culture during this time, I feel that understanding Hoovervilles are relevant to the conversation of the great depression.
Janet Thomas

Historical Text Archive: Electronic History Resources, online since 1990 - 1 views

historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php

#class #sharecropping #depressionera #whitesharecroppers

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  • Janet Thomas on 05 Oct 13
     
    The Historical Text Archive website publishes "articles, books, essays and documents on a broad range of historical subjects". This page deals with the rise and fall of the sharecropping system in America. Although the article is lengthy it has a particularly interesting section concerning the plight of sharecroppers during the Depression era .
Alexa Mason

Photographs from the FSA and OWI - 0 views

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#america #class #WalkerEvans #NewYork #photography

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  • Census records, real estate guides, and fire insurance maps draw a profile of the neighborhood in the 1930s. Situated at the southern end of the city's Yorkville District, the block was predominantly Italian, although many Irish and Poles lived on nearby East Side streets. The population grew during the decade, with most families living in rented three- or four-room apartments or in "rooming and lodging" houses built before 1900. Most buildings provided shared toilets and tubs, and nearly all residents had electricity or gas for cooking and lighting. Rents ranged from ten to fifty dollars per month. Residents either rode public transportation (a tramway ran parallel to East Sixty-first Street and the EL traveled along Second Avenue) or walked; few owned automobiles. A Roman Catholic church--identified as Our Lady of Perpetual Help on a 1934 map--adjoined a parochial school facing East Sixty-second Street. Many small businesses served the neighborhood, and a few larger concerns like warehouses and a laundry that served a citywide clientele.11
  • Alexa Mason on 07 Oct 13
     
    This webpage is from the Library of Congress. It includes twenty photographs taken by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration. The photographs portray a New York City block in the 1930s. According to the Library of Congress, the census and real estate guides to place the block within a historical context. The webpage describes not only Evans' career and photography style but the analysis of the subject, this particular New York City block, provides the reader with background such as the types of households, tenants and businesses that occupied this neighborhood during this time.
Jacqueline Alley

The Class-Domination Theory of Power - 0 views

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#class #america #Power Elite #GreatDepression

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  • Jacqueline Alley on 07 Oct 13
     
    This article discusses the idea that those with money have power. The article explains how upper class went to private schools, held large banquets/tea parties, and think they are better than everyone and therefore know how to govern better. The upper class controlled large corporations through stocks. The articles defines the Power Elite, people who tend to dominate American policymaking. This group includes bureaucratic, corporate, intellectual, military, and government elites who control the principal institutions in the US. Their opinions and actions influence the decisions of the policymakers.
Omri Amit

Farms Vs. Cities in the Great Depression - 1 views

www.iptv.org/...mypath.cfm

Class Farm Subsidies Unions Great Depression

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  • Omri Amit on 08 Oct 13
     
    Even though farmers suffered from low prices, many were still in better shape than city dwellers. Farmers could at least grow their own food unlike people in the cities. Farmers banded together like a labor union to prevent various products like milk from reaching towns and cities in order to raise the prices. The effort did not really have any effect on prices. The government stepped in to pass a bill to help the farmers to reduce production and surplus products. Limits on sizes of crops and herds that farmers could produce were set and farmers that agreed to limit production were paid subsidies.
Omri Amit

Memorial Day Massacre - 1 views

www.illinoislaborhistory.org/memorial-day-massacre.html

Class Society Unions MoneyAndPower

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  • Omri Amit on 08 Oct 13
     
    In 1937, several smaller steelmakers refused to sign union contracts providing workers with basic working conditions. The Steel Workers Organizing Committee organized a strike against these small steelmakers. The Chicago Police, protecting the wealthy interest confronted the strikers and fired shots into the crowd killing ten demonstrators.
Omri Amit

Dust Bowl Picture Gallery - 0 views

www.weru.ksu.edu/...dustbowlpics.html

Class DustBowl Great Depression Farming

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  • Omri Amit on 08 Oct 13
     
    This is a comprehensive photo gallery of images from the Dust Bowl. It shows in great detail and visualizes the hardships that farmers faced during the Great Depression as the weather prevented agriculture. The dust storms are very well documented in these photos.
Omri Amit

Teenage Life during the Great Depression - 0 views

www.erroluys.com/RidingtheRails.htm

Class Great Depression Hoboes RideTheRails Teenage Life

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  • Omri Amit on 08 Oct 13
     
    This site discusses the life of two hundred and fifty thousand teenage "hoboes" who left home because they felt they were a burden to their families. It describes how some teenagers looked for adventure while others searched for jobs. All were searching for a better life. Education was not an option for these children during the depression so they had to "ride the rails" to find employment.
Anamaria Liriano

Making Ends Meet in the Great Depression - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...02depression.html

#class #GreatDepression #america

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  • Anamaria Liriano on 08 Oct 13
     
    This is a pretty cool source, it is a series of interviews of people who lived through the great depression. The first interview in particular is of a man who grew up living in a sharecropping community. I've said it before but to be able to read the account of those who lived through a particular event really brings to life what we read about. In these interviews you hear about how hard life was for so many.
Jasmine Wade

How Republicans Are Denying Health Care To Millions Of Poor Black People And Single Mot... - 0 views

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#class #america #republicans #statistics #healthcare

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  • Jasmine Wade on 08 Oct 13
     
    This site has statistical information concerning the many categories of people in the U.S. that are phased by the refusal by the Republican party to implement the Affordable Care Act throughout the whole country. It gives insight as to why the excluded states are left with citizens unable to receive healthcare from any source. Race, poverty, and location plays a role in how many in the country are harmed by this political decision. People living in stated excluded from the ACA have nowhere to turn for health care when they have employment, such as being a cashier, retail sales clerk, or waitress, that does offer health coverage to employees. This picture, after some time observing, makes me think possibly dental care could be helpful or simply a doctor to detect a malnutrition.
Jasmine Wade

Poverty Facts and Stats - Global Issues - 0 views

www.globalissues.org/...poverty-facts-and-stats

#class #america #statistics #money

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  • Jasmine Wade on 07 Oct 13
     
    This page includes graphs and charts of data from 2005. Also, the page is one large list of statistics relating to daily spending, global income, children's health and mortality, problems concerning water availability and cleanliness, and U.S. spending on various goods. Again, looking at the photo, I think this link sheds light on how the many different global, national, individual financial facts are caused by and are the causes of such factors as unsafe and unsanitary living conditions, poor health care, or unsatisfactory education.
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