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

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

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

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

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

Black Sunday April 14, 1935 24 hours of a blinding dust storm Dreaded black-blizzard covers entire disaster area Drought adds further devastation

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

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

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SOURCE INFORMATION FOR SLIDES 1&2 OF 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.

SOURCE INFORMATION FOR SLIDES 3&4 OF 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. .

SOURCE INFORMATION FOR SLIDES 5&6 OF 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.

SOURCE INFORMATION FOR SLIDES 7&8 OF 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. Depression to World War II. Digital ID:(b&w copy scan)fsa8b29525

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.