Life During the Depression The Depression caused many farmers to lose their farms. At the same time, years of over-cultivation and drought created the “Dust Bowl” in the Midwest, destroying agricultural production in a previously fertile region. Thousands of these farmers and other unemployed wor...
-The Dust Bowl during the Great Depression led to widespread migration, including 200,000 people who moved to California, most arriving with no money, family, or resources. -Economic conditions that led to the Great Depression began in the early 1920s, but most people think of the stock mark...
This famous photograph is searing in its depiction of the utter desperation theGreat Depressionbrought to so many and has become a symbol of the Depression. This woman was one of many migrant workers picking peas in California in the 1930s to make just enough money to survive. It was taken ...
California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression, by Robert W. Cherny, Mary Ann Irwin, and Ann Marie Wilson. Edsdoi:10.1080/00497878.2014.914406Margaret DePond
A study by two economists at the University of California, Los Angeles estimated that the New Deal extended the Great Depression by at least seven years.22 But it's possible that the relatively quick recovery that was characteristic of other post-depression recoveries may not have occurred as ra...
Detroit’s population grew from 41,000 in 1910 to 120,066 in 1920. Arkansans, Louisianians, and Texans went to places like Saint Louis and California. The Second Great Migration (1940–70) began in earnest after the Great Depression and brought at least 5 million people—including many ...
An in-depth exploration of the Great Depression's origins, societal effects, and governmental responses, spotlighting its profound impact on 20th-century America.
“They left as though they were fleeing some curse,” wrote the scholar Emmett J. Scott, an observer of the early years of the migration. “They were willing to make almost any sacrifice to obtain a railroad ticket and they left with the intention of staying.” ...
This, combined with the Great Depression that the country, as a whole, was facing, led to dire economic circumstances and mass migration. Because many farmers had no money to buy bus or train tickets, they resorted to hopping the rails (illegally hopping on trains when they slowed down) and...
migration of the Joads—as conceived by Steinbeck and filmed indelibly by John Ford—the Dust Bowl, the loss of a family home, the trek in search of work, the awful conditions for migrant farm labor, the struggle to keep the family together, became a metaphor for the Depression as a ...