Great Depression
Great Depression Impact "The American People in Hard Times"
Employment
African Americas
Minorities
Women
Most ppl saw unemployment/poverty as signs of personal failures
Men= ashamed of being jobless
Relief eventually collapsed
Thousands sifted through garbage cans for scraps of food or waited outside restaurants
Nearly 2 million men (few women) road freight trains living as nomads
Farm income declined 60%
1/3 of farmers lost their land
“Dust Bowl”- worst drought in nations’ history (spreading through Texas into Dakotas)
Farm industries produce more than consumers buy
“Okies” families from the Dust Bowl travel to CA and other states
-many worked as agricultural migrants
Increase in deaths from starvation Experienced more unemployment, homelessness, malnutrition, and disease
½ of all blacks lived in South; mostly farmers
Collapse of prices of cotton/ other crops -> no income -> left land
Some migrated to Southern cities
Whites in Southern cities demanded that A.A. be dismissed from jobs
Black Shirts- “No Jobs for Niggers Until Every White Man Has A Job!” –violence
1932 over ½ blacks in South= unemployed
400,000 move to the North (less discrimination and better conditions)
NY- black unemployment= 50%
2 million AA were on some form of relief by 1932
Scottsboro Case (1931-1950)
NAACP began to work to win a position for blacks within the emerging labor mov’t -> over ½ million= able to join
Steelworks Union- AA constituted a/b 20% of members
1. Mexican Americans:
Aprrox. 2 million in the 1930’s
Some farmed/ were agricultural migrants
Most lived in urban areas
Some= forced to leave country
½ a million Chicanoes left the U.S to Mexico
Faced discrimination
Relief programs excluded Mexicans from their roles
No access to American schools
Hospitals refused them admission
Migrated to cities such as L.A. were they lived in poverty
2. Asian Americans- Japanese:
Faced discrimination/ economic marginalization
Often worked in
Employment
African Americas
Minorities
Women
Most ppl saw unemployment/poverty as signs of personal failures
Men= ashamed of being jobless
Relief eventually collapsed
Thousands sifted through garbage cans for scraps of food or waited outside restaurants
Nearly 2 million men (few women) road freight trains living as nomads
Farm income declined 60%
1/3 of farmers lost their land
“Dust Bowl”- worst drought in nations’ history (spreading through Texas into Dakotas)
Farm industries produce more than consumers buy
“Okies” families from the Dust Bowl travel to CA and other states
-many worked as agricultural migrants
Increase in deaths from starvation Experienced more unemployment, homelessness, malnutrition, and disease
½ of all blacks lived in South; mostly farmers
Collapse of prices of cotton/ other crops -> no income -> left land
Some migrated to Southern cities
Whites in Southern cities demanded that A.A. be dismissed from jobs
Black Shirts- “No Jobs for Niggers Until Every White Man Has A Job!” –violence
1932 over ½ blacks in South= unemployed
400,000 move to the North (less discrimination and better conditions)
NY- black unemployment= 50%
2 million AA were on some form of relief by 1932
Scottsboro Case (1931-1950)
NAACP began to work to win a position for blacks within the emerging labor mov’t -> over ½ million= able to join
Steelworks Union- AA constituted a/b 20% of members
1. Mexican Americans:
Aprrox. 2 million in the 1930’s
Some farmed/ were agricultural migrants
Most lived in urban areas
Some= forced to leave country
½ a million Chicanoes left the U.S to Mexico
Faced discrimination
Relief programs excluded Mexicans from their roles
No access to American schools
Hospitals refused them admission
Migrated to cities such as L.A. were they lived in poverty
2. Asian Americans- Japanese:
Faced discrimination/ economic marginalization
Often worked in