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    This photo essay documents life in the United States during the Great Depression through a collection of photographs. The photos show bank failures wiping out savings, unemployed men lining up for jobs, squatter camps, dust storms devastating farms, migrant workers and families living in poverty, breadlines and soup kitchens offering meals, sharecroppers in run-down housing, relief checks and employment lines, and the impacts of diseases like hookworm and pellagra on rural families struggling to survive. The essay conveys the widespread hardship Americans faced during the economic crisis of the 1930s.

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    This photo essay documents life in the United States during the Great Depression through a collection of photographs. The photos show bank failures wiping out savings, unemployed men lining up for jobs, squatter camps, dust storms devastating farms, migrant workers and families living in poverty, breadlines and soup kitchens offering meals, sharecroppers in run-down housing, relief checks and employment lines, and the impacts of diseases like hookworm and pellagra on rural families struggling to survive. The essay conveys the widespread hardship Americans faced during the economic crisis of the 1930s.

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    This photo essay documents life in the United States during the Great Depression through a collection of photographs. The photos show bank failures wiping out savings, unemployed men lining up for jobs, squatter camps, dust storms devastating farms, migrant workers and families living in poverty, breadlines and soup kitchens offering meals, sharecroppers in run-down housing, relief checks and employment lines, and the impacts of diseases like hookworm and pellagra on rural families struggling to survive. The essay conveys the widespread hardship Americans faced during the economic crisis of the 1930s.

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    A Photo Essay On The Great Depression

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    shazeb zafar
    This photo essay documents life in the United States during the Great Depression through a collection of photographs. The photos show bank failures wiping out savings, unemployed men lining up for jobs, squatter camps, dust storms devastating farms, migrant workers and families living in poverty, breadlines and soup kitchens offering meals, sharecroppers in run-down housing, relief checks and employment lines, and the impacts of diseases like hookworm and pellagra on rural families struggling to survive. The essay conveys the widespread hardship Americans faced during the economic crisis of the 1930s.

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    A Photo Essay on

    the Great
    Depression
    English I Honors
    Police stand guard outside the entrance to New York's
    closed World Exchange Bank, March 20, 1931. Not only
    did bank failures wipe out people's savings, they also
    undermined the ideology of thrift.
    Unemployed men vying for jobs at the American Legion
    Employment Bureau in Los Angeles
    during the Great Depression.
    Squatter's Camp, Route 70, Arkansas,
    October, 1935.
    Roadside stand near
    Birmingham, Alabama, 1936.
    Farmer and sons, dust storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma,
    1936.
    The drought that helped cripple agriculture in the Great
    Depression was the worst in the climatological history of the
    country. By 1934 it had dessicated the Great Plains, from
    North Dakota to Texas, from the Mississippi River Valley to
    the Rockies. Vast dust storms swept the region.
    In one of the largest pea camps in
    California. February, 1936.
    The photograph that has become known as "Migrant Mother"
    is one of a series of photographs that Dorothea Lange made
    in February or March of 1936 in Nipomo, California. Lange
    was concluding a month's trip photographing migratory farm
    labor around the state for what was then the Resettlement
    Administration.
    Demonstration of unemployed.
    Columbus, Kansas. May 1936.
    A sharecropper's yard.
    Hale County, Alabama, Summer 1936.
    Porch of a sharecropper's cabin.
    Hale County, Alabama, Summer 1936.
    The marginal and oppressive economy of
    sharecropping largely collapsed during the great
    Depression.
    Kitchen in house of Floyd Burroughs,
    sharecropper, near
    Moundville, Hale County, Alabama.
    Summer 1936.
    People living in miserable poverty,
    Elm Grove, Oklahoma County,
    Oklahoma.
    August 1936.
    Waiting for the semimonthly relief
    checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley,
    California.
    Leland, Mississippi,
    in the Delta area,
    June 1937.
    Part of the daily lineup outside the
    State Employment Service Office.
    Memphis, Tennessee. June 1938.
    Young boys waiting in kitchen of city mission
    for soup which is given out nightly. Dubuque,
    Iowa. April 1940.
    For millions, soup kitchens offered the only
    food they would eat.
    Durham, North Carolina, May 1940.
    Upstairs bedroom of family on relief,
    Chicago, Illinois. April 1941
    Children at Hill House, Mississippi.
    Sharecropper house on dirt. Dirt log cabin on right is
    much older than attached frame cabin on left. Both
    have halfstones. Note dog run and flowering plants in
    tin can and tubs. This is typical of Negro dwellings. Log
    build visible.
    Through the back door is the corncrib.
    Near Olive Hill, North Carolina.
    An African-American maid.
    Mississippi Delta children.
    Plantation cotton cabin.
    Mississippi Delta, near Vicksburg.
    Tenant family
    near Greensboro, Alabama.
    Houses in Eutaw, Alabama.
    Church near Paradis, Louisiana
    Feet of children on a farm near
    Greensboro, Alabama.
    Greensboro, Alabama
    Main street.
    Greensboro, Alabama.
    Miss Teal, nurse, brings hookworm
    medicine to Lewis family, R.R. (Rural
    Rehabilitation) clients. Coffee County,
    Alabama.
    Part of RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family:
    children have hookworm, mother has pellagra
    and milk leg, according to nurse's report.
    Father works on WPA (Work Projects
    Administration).
    Coffee County, Alabama.
    This woman, wife of an ex-farmer now living on relief, had
    pellagra in an advanced stage. She has had some treatment
    and shown great improvement but there were still evidences
    of mental disturbance. She was the mother of twelve
    children. The child in her arms has malaria as have probably
    the entire family. Jefferson, Texas.
    Courtroom of the
    old Monroe County Courthouse
    Photo from the 1962 film based on
    Harper Lee's novel

     Gregory Peck as
    Atticus Finch
     Brock Peters as
    Tom Robinson

    “Why reasonable people go stark


    raving mad when anything
    involving a Negro comes up, is
    something I don't pretend to
    understand.” 
    ~Atticus, Chapter 9
    The End

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