1. Note Page 37 Life During the Great Depression By Morgan J. Burris Lexington Middle School US History

2. Struggling to Get By : Bread lines / Soup Kitchens Free Handouts – Churches…

3. YMCAs - Young Mens Christian Assc.

4. Bailiffs – Police boot non-paying renters

5. Hoovervilles – Shantytowns of homeless and broke

6. Hobos – hitching wanderers, mostly single men

7. The Dust Bowl: Lost of Native Grasses Fields abandoned, uncovered. Terrible Drought 1930s strikes - Vast Dust Bowl

10. Huge dust storms, suffocating people & livestock Buried crops, equipment, buildings. Mortgaged farms lost to banks US actually paid photographers to go out west and document the effects on America.

11. Okies – thousands migrate to CA

12. Hollywood: Shirley Temple – Child star Groucho Marx – Comedian

13. Walt Disney – Animation Jimmy Stewart – Mr. Nice Guy Famous Actor Clark Gable - Mr. Handsome Famous Actor

14. On the Air: Daily Radio Broadcast - Jack Benny - George Burns & Gracie Allen Jack Benny

15. - Green Hornet - Lone Ranger! Soap Operas – are born

16. Literature and Art: John Steinbeck – The Grape of Wrath – Family fleeing Dust Bowl for California.

17. Literature and Art: William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury - Used stream of Consciousness technique - Hear what character is thinking…

18. Literature and Art: Photography - Time & Life Magazines - Best selling immediately, photo documentary

19. The difference between black and white during this time…. Gordon Parks (first Black photographer for Life) most famous photograph, American Gothic (1942) shows a black woman posed in front of an American flag with a broom and mop at hand, illustrating the social divide and inequality of not only America, but the hierarchy of gender. Literature and Art: American Gothic Art Style - Regional Style, Rural no-nonsense Midwesterners….

20. Little help for the minorities… Louisville Flood Victims 1937 by Margeret Bourke-White Over 400 killed, thousands displaced, little financial help for very poor blacks living in Ohio River Valley

21. Note Page 37 Life During the Great Depression By Morgan J. Burris Lexington Middle School The End