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“Introduction xix-xxii” and “Short Nonfiction From and About the 1930s”

“Introduction xix-xxii” and “Short Nonfiction From and About the 1930s”. Cristian, Nick, Pablo . Introduction: pg xix Reportage From and About the 1930’s. An overview of Chapters

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“Introduction xix-xxii” and “Short Nonfiction From and About the 1930s”

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  1. “Introduction xix-xxii” and “Short Nonfiction From and About the 1930s” Cristian, Nick, Pablo

  2. Introduction: pg xixReportage From and About the 1930’s An overview of Chapters In 1934 Olson published “The Strike", "Thousand Dollar Vagrant", and “I Want You Women up North to Know” and more than fifty years later, “A Vision of Fear and Hope” “The Strike“: 1934 West Coast Waterfront Longshoremen’s Strike "Thousand Dollar Vagrant“: Olsen’s arrest “I Want You Women up North to Know”: poem based on a letter written by Felipe Manufacturing Corporation “A Vision of Fear and Hope”: Called for action to bring about “full humanhood”pgxxii

  3. A Vision of Fear and Hope pg133 Speaks of her youth during the Great Depression in the 1930’s “Out of that visibility, that sense of identification, came our first body of literature, art, songs, photographs, film concerned with the lives and experiences of most us.”pg 134 The era created unity and an image It was hard times during the Depression with nearly “one fourth of the labor force” pg 134 out of work. The miserable living conditions in “Hoovervilles” and stories of unreasonable food rations for the day. “Hooverville”, what does the name signify and/or mean? Olsen was jailed twice during the early 30’s Wages were cut in half and the workweek was 6 days long. Education was not a priority FDR was the sole savior of the country and worked together with the people She believes that, “Today the vision of full humanhood is battered, scorned, deemed “unrealistic.”pg 138

  4. The Strike pg.139 • Workers of San Francisco • 20,000 packed into an auditorium • Mayor Rossi comes in and gets immensely booed • Ambulances and sirens as battlefield had taken place • MASSACRE, armed forces massacring unarmed • “We’ll get even. It won’t be long. General Strike.”

  5. Thousand-Dollar Vagrant pg.149 • Bull knocking at the door so they get Johnny out first. • Beat while they were question. • All four were arrested • “You’ll lie around and rot till you do…our oil over you, and burn you up like they do the niggers down south.” • Tillie was arrested for the fact that she was in the apartment. • Each was given $1,000 bail • Quote at the end of page 154.

  6. I Want You Women Up North To Know. Pg.155 Poem based on the letter from Felipe Ibarro in New Masses, Janurary 9th , 1934 He keeps reffering to the “women up north”. Describes 4 woman on pg. 156. Name them… The poem describes the struggle and labor that these woman had to endure.

  7. Biographical Sketch by: Laurie Olsen and Julie Olsen Edwards Overview of Tillie Olsen’s life read pg. 160

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