THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 1930’S

1. THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 1930’S “Brother can you spare a dime?”

2. STOCK MARKET CRASH OF 1929 • “Black Thursday”, October 24, 1929 • “Black Tuesday”, October 29, 1929

3. STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN SOCIETY DISINTEGRATES • Factories and mines close • Banks are worthless • Consumer buying comes to a standstill

4. 1932 – AMERICAN DREAMS ARE SHATTERED • 14 million Americans are jobless (almost 1/3 the workforce) • Banks foreclose on houses and farms • No food, no clothes, no jobs • Recycled lifestyle

5. DUST BOWL (DUST STORMS) OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS 1934-1935

6. Black SundayApril 14, 1935 • 24 hours of a blinding dust storm • Dreaded black-blizzard covers entire disaster area • Drought adds further devastation

7. Colorado Kansas Oklahoma New Mexico Texas Devastation of their cropland Respiratory health issues Unsanitary living Rampant crime Debt-ridden families THE VICTIMS OF THE DUST BOWL

8. DUST BOWL ORPHANS • Mass exodus to California • Opportunities in Russia • Migrant workers become source of cheap labor

12. RESOURCES Angelis, Therese. The Dust Bowl. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Pub., c1989. Farris, John. The dust bowl. San Diego: Lucent Books, c1989. Goldston, Robert. The Great Depression: The United States in the Thirties. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1968. Katz, William Loren. An album of the Great Depression. New York: Franklin Watts, c1978. McArthur, Debra. The dust bowl and the Depression in American history. Enslow, c2002. Shannon,David A., ed. The Great Depression. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall,c1960. Shindo, Charles J. Dust bowl migrants in American imagination. University of Kansas, c1997. The American Memory Collection. The American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl.

13. SOURCE INFORMATION FOR SLIDES 1&2OF POWER POINT PRESENTATION • Slide #1: Son of farmer in dust bowl area. April, 1936 [photograph] Rothstein, Arthur, photographer. Used by permission of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. Source: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photo- graphs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Digital ID: (b&w film copy of negative of print)cph3c30123 • Slide #2: Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town. June, c1937 [photograph] Dorthea Lange, photographer. Used by permission of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. Source: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI,1935-1945. Digital ID: (int. film) Fsa8b38645.

14. SOURCE INFORMATION FOR SLIDES 3&4OF POWER POINT PRESENTATION • Slide #3: Abandoned farm in the dust bowl area, Oklahoma. April, C1936. [photograph] Arthur Rothstein, photographer. Used by permission of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. Source: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Digital ID: (int. film)fsa8b38293. • Slide #4: Along a California highway, a dust bowl refugee bound for Oregon. March, 1937.[photograph] Dorothea Lange, photographer. Used by permission of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. Source: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Digital ID: (intermediary roll film) fsa8b31789. .

15. SOURCE INFORMATION FOR SLIDES 5&6OF POWER POINT PRESENTATION • Slide #5: Home of a dust bowl refugee in California. March, 1937. [photograph] Dorothea Lange, photographer. Used by permission of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC • Source: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Digital ID: (intermediary roll film)fsa8b31760. • Slide #6: Oklahoma dust bowl refugees. San Fernando, California. June, 1935. [photograph] Dorothea Lange, photographer. Used by Permission of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. Source: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Digital ID: (intermediary roll film) fsa8b27316.

16. SOURCE INFORMATION FOR SLIDES 7&8OF POWER POINT PRESENTATION • Slide #7: Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria. Forty families from the dust bowl have been camped here for months on the edge of the pea fields. There has been no work because the crop was frozen. March, 1937. [photograph] Dorothea Lange, photographer. Used by permission of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540. Source: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Digital ID: (intermediary roll film) fsa8b31762. • Slide #8: Migrant agricultural worker’s family. Seven children without food. March, 1935. [photograph] Dorothea Lange,photographer. Used by permission of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540. Source: America from the Great Depression to World War II. Digital ID:(b&w copy scan)fsa8b29525

17. SOURCE INFORMATION FOR SLIDES 9&10 OF POWER POINT PRESENTATION • Slide 9: Mother washing feet and cleaning up daughter’s in Sharecropper’s shack. Southeast Missouri Farms. May, 1938. [photograph] Russell Lee, photographer. Used by permission of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540. Source: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Digital ID:(b&w film copy of negative print) cph3c18449. • Slide 10: Construction worker with wife and neighbor’s child in tent home near Alexandria, Louisiana. Ten men, two women, and two children live here. December, 1940. [photograph] Marion Post Wolcott, Photographer. Used by permission of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540. Source: America from the Great Depression to World War II. Digital ID: (int.roll film)fsa8c14455.