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THE GREAT DEPRESSION

THE GREAT DEPRESSION. Buying stocks on margin Stock market crash Run on the banks Bread lines In spite of poverty, Empire State Building constructed Great drought in the Midwest and South. FDR & THE NEW DEAL.

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THE GREAT DEPRESSION

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  1. THE GREAT DEPRESSION • Buying stocks on margin • Stock market crash • Run on the banks • Bread lines • In spite of poverty, Empire State Building constructed • Great drought in the Midwest and South

  2. FDR & THE NEW DEAL • TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY (TVA) – designed to help farmers with fertilization and irrigation of crops • CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS (CCC) – young people were sent to work outdoors and send money back home to their parents • SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (SEC) – to regulate stock market and prevent another crash • FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC) – to prevent bank failure

  3. FDR & THE NEW DEAL (con’t.) • SOCIAL SECURITY (SS) – money taken from every worker’s pay and matched by employer - used to support retired, handicapped, children without a parent WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION (WPA) – Made jobs for highway and building construction and for musicians, writers, and artists

  4. WRITERS AND ARTISTS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

  5. DASHIELL HAMMETT 1894-1961

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  7. Private detective for Pinkerton Agency • Often called the Father of the Modern American detective story • Best-known novel The Maltese Falcon, whose main character is Sam Spade, played by Humphrey Bogart in the award-winning movie • Continental Op is another main character of several of his books • The Thin Man is another well-known book • “The Man Who Killed Dan Odans” ironic • Main characters are tough, cynical detectives with a strong sense of justice

  8. DOROTHEA LANGE1895-1965 • Born in New Jersey • Contracted polio at age 7 • Father abandoned family when she was 12 • Educated in NYC • Later moved to San Francisco • Remembered for her portraits of rural workers during the Depression and her documentary photographs

  9. MIGRANT MOTHER This is the picture for which Dorothea Lange is most remembered.

  10. “I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it.”

  11. CHILDREN PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE AT WEILL SCHOOL “Children at the Weill public school in San Francisco pledge allegiance to the American flag in April 1942, prior to the internment of Japanese Americans.”

  12. “A Japanese American unfurled this banner the day after the Pearl Harbor attack; Lange photographed it in March 1942, just prior to the man's internment.”

  13. JOHN STEINBECK 1902-1968

  14. JOHN STEINBECK

  15. Born in California • Lived during the Great Depression • His works portray the lives of poor and migrant workers during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression • Won Pulitzer Prize for novel The Grapes of Wrath • Also wrote novella Of Mice and Men • In 1962, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

  16. MARC BLITZSTEIN • Wrote “The Cradle Will Rock” • A work of art financed by the WPA • A protest against the plight of the workers • Moll’s song “Nickel Under the Foot” • http://youtu.be/KqzeTwrWA8M

  17. WOODY GUTHRIE1912-1967 • Folk songs • “So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You” – about the dust storms that forced his family to move from Oklahoma to California • http://youtu.be/P2YDK0GJaF8 • http://youtu.be/fvxpzAzJgHY • “This Land is Your Land” • http://youtu.be/XaI5IRuS2aE

  18. This Land Is Your LandWords and Music by Woody Guthrie • This land is your land This land is my landFrom California to the New York island; From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and Me. • As I was walking that ribbon of highway, I saw above me that endless skyway: I saw below me that golden valley: This land was made for you and me.

  19. I've roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts; And all around me a voice was sounding: This land was made for you and me. • When the sun came shining, and I was strolling, And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling, As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting: This land was made for you and me.

  20. PETE SEEGER1919- • Folk songs • “If I Had a Hammer” • http://youtu.be/mUiVKPqY6Bw • http://youtu.be/7SCt8JPAkgU • “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” • http://youtu.be/7SCt8JPAkgU

  21. JAMES THURBER1894-1961 • Partially blinded • As a child developed fantasy life • Wrote for The New Yorker • “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” about a henpecked husband who escapes life in a fantasy life • “The Night the Bed Fell” about one humorous night with a family

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