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Hard Times: The Great Depression

Hard Times: The Great Depression. Charlie Chaplin in City Lights (1931). "Destitute Pea Pickers in California." Nipomo, California, February 1936. Photograph by Dorothea Lange. "Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work..." Dorothea Lange.

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Hard Times: The Great Depression

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  1. Hard Times: The Great Depression

  2. Charlie Chaplin in City Lights (1931)

  3. "Destitute Pea Pickers in California." Nipomo, California, February 1936. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.

  4. "Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work..." Dorothea Lange.

  5. Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma, April 1936. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein.

  6. “Toward Los Angeles, California” Dorothea Lange (1937)

  7. Russell Lee, “The Faro Caudill family eating dinner in their dugout” Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940

  8. Russell Lee, “Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family”, Pie Town, NM, October 1940

  9. Russell Lee, “Garden adjacent to the dugout home of Jack Whinery, homesteader” Pie Town, NM, September1940

  10. Causes of the Great Depression • Structural weaknesses of the banking system? • Unequal distribution of wealth? • Changing nature of economy? • Fiscal orthodoxy? • Economic nationalism? • Fall in money supply?

  11. “We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.”Herbert Hoover(1928)

  12. Bonus Army March (1932)

  13. Hoovervilles Squatters’ shacks along the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. Arthur Rothstein (1936)

  14. 1928 Presidential Election

  15. 1932 Presidential Election

  16. FDR’s First Inaugural Address, 1933

  17. The New Dealers • Henry Wallace • Harold Ickes • Francis Perkins • Harry Hopkins • Raymond Moley • Rexford Tugwell • William Woodin • Lewis Douglas

  18. Eleanor Roosevelt

  19. The New Deal Coalition • Southern Whites • African Americans • Organised Labour • Midwestern farmers

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