1. The Great Depression
A photo history

2. Famous photo “Migrant Mother” The look on this woman’s face coined the popular phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words”

3. The depression hit almost EVERYONE

4. Migrant workers with their 11 children in Oklahoma

5. Hoovervilles – shanty towns for the homeless named after President Hoover

6. Woman living in a shanty

10. Men would wait in line for hours for food or the possibility of work

12. Many depended on charities for food

14. Most of the unemployed wanted JOBS, not charity

15. Families would travel from place to place in search of work

17. Family in search of work

18. Son of a sharecropper in Chesnee, South Carolina

20. Child of a day laborer – Ellis County, Texas

23. Grandchild of a sharecropper – his father is in prison

24. Mississippi sharecropper

25. Peach picker – Muscella, Georgia

26. Previously a farmer from Texas – now a migrant worker

27. Pea pickers in California

28. 13 year old sharecropper in Americus, Georgia

29. Migrant Grandmother with sick baby in open field - Arizona