Social Effects

1. Social Effects • Urban areas • Shantytowns (“Hoovervilles”) • Metal, tarpaper, crates, boxes, car bodies

9. In hard times, tent cities rise across the country: Since foreclosure mess, homeless advocates report rise in encampments September 2008: Homeless encampments are springing up around the country, including this one next to the homeless shelter in downtown Reno, Nev.

11. Tent cities following Haiti earthquake, 2010

12. No direct relief • Instead, soup kitchens and breadlines • Apple selling / pencil selling • “Relief gardens”

18. Unemployed vying for jobs

24. Rural areas • Advantage in depressions lost • Dust Bowl • Grassland plowed up, then “exhausted” • Drought, then wind storms • “Okies” exodus along Rt. 66 to California

30. The Hottest Month • The hottest months in U.S. history have all been Julys. • The hottest month in U.S. history came during the Dust Bowl in July 1936. • National average temperature was 77 degrees • In 2011, New York City’s average temperature was 82 degrees – a new record.

38. http://phomul.canalblog.com/archives/bourke_white__margaret/index.htmlhttp://phomul.canalblog.com/archives/bourke_white__margaret/index.html

39. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqnMrynpq9U

40. Impact on Minorities • African-Americans • Even higher unemployment % • Increase in racial violence • “Scottsboro boys” • Mexican-Americans / Asian-Americans • Targets of hostility • Deportations, even for native born

42. Families • Men • Most visible • Searching for work, rise of the hobo • Women • Suffering in silence • Targets of resentment, especially if married • Children • Malnutrition, less school • Psychological effects • Suicides, mental illness rose

44. General summary of Great Depresssion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfylLnHjcu0 Stop at 4:30