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A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck. A look at The GREAT Depression. Graph of Stock Market Crash. Unemployment line. Unemployed men vying for a job. A line at the soup kitchen. Blacks in line to get food & clothing. Men in line for a meal. Another breadline.

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A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

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  1. A Long Way from Chicagoby Richard Peck A look at The GREAT Depression

  2. Graph of Stock Market Crash

  3. Unemployment line

  4. Unemployed men vying for a job

  5. A line at the soup kitchen

  6. Blacks in line to get food & clothing

  7. Men in line for a meal

  8. Another breadline

  9. Dust storm in Stratford, Texas

  10. Farmer and kids during dust storm

  11. A camp in a drought

  12. President Herbert Hoover 1929-1933

  13. Shanty Towns • Millions of people lost their homes during the Great Depression. • Those who weren’t lucky ended up in Shanty Towns – tent cities built by the poor for the poor. • At one point Shanty Towns or Hoovervilles as they became known later were home to more than 1 million Americans.

  14. A migrant pickers’ camp

  15. Women & children in a camp

  16. “Migrant Mother”

  17. A freight car used as a house

  18. Drifters heading west

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