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    How To Describe The 1930s

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    There are many words to describe the 1930s‚ but equality was not one of them. From injustice lynching and kills of blacks to the stock market crash of 1929 that lead the United States into the Great Depression. The 30s plausible could be the worst years in US history. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee‚ she uncovers all the hardships there were living during that time period. The story takes place in Maycomb a small town in Alabama and is narrated by the main character‚ a little girl named

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    Womens Rights 1930

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    Women’s Rights of the 1930’s Women who were widowed or divorced‚ or whose husbands had l left them‚ struggled to keep their families alive; single women had to fend for themselves. These women were truly on the margins‚ practically invisible. “We did not go hungry‚ but we lived lean.” That sums up the experience of many families during the 1930’s. The typical woman in the 1930s had a husband who was still employed‚ although he had probably taken a pay cut to keep his job; if the man lost his

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    Geographical Review‚ 89‚ no. 1 (1999)‚ 54-73. In this article‚ Tyner explains the pseudoscience and logic behind the discrimination against Filipino immigrants during the early 1900’s. Using eugenics as justification‚ the government made it clear that America was to remain a white-dominated country with little tolerance for immigrants. A prime example of this anti-immigration sentiment was expressed by U.S. Senator Samuel Shortridge when he said “… we belong to the Caucasian branch of the human family

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    reflecting the “Great Depression in the 1930s”. The second way this novel reflected historical realities was by talking about the race in the south. The author of this novel Harper Lee gives an image to the reader about the racial injustice that she was able to see as a child. I almost forgot to mention that the author also shares what is considered her feeling on the civil rights throughout her novel. So how does the novel reflect on the “Great Depression in the 1930s”? Well in the novel you can tell

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    Food In The 1930's

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    The 1930’s Food! The 1930’s cuisine was very simple and extremely rationed. The people in the 30’s just didn’t have the money to afford for themselves and kids all the time. The food was mostly given to men and children in soup/ bread lines for those who couldn’t afford food. The food was simple and inexpensive; the goal was to produce a lot of food with as little ingredients as possible. I’m sure the bread was bland and the chowders and soups were plain but it’s what the people of this struggling

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    Family Life In The 1930s

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    In the 1930s‚ the family was the most important unit of the society. The family was an important economic unit since most the people lived in rural areas and worked on the land. Families in the same clan had similar common names. Some villages had people from the same family. Most of the people in the villages had four to five surnames. In the 1930s and 1950s land was the main form of wealth in China and it was divided equally among the sons of the landowner. Quick example that Xiangzi‚ Rickshaw

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    Suburban communities began at the turn of the century as affluent families sought refuge from “densely packed neighborhoods of the industrial cities (Judd and Swanstrom 2015‚ 136). “The great migration” of southern Blacks‚ and poverty stricken Appalachian White families flooded the industrial cities of the north. At the same time Mexican immigrant also filtered into the Southwest in large number‚ fueling an anti-immigrant backlash. The early days of suburban development can be credited to the street

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    own. In the early 1960s‚ almost every middle-class white family had help work for them so that the white women didn’t have to work or take care of their children all on their own. There was extreme racial segregation that now‚ is still in the process of being solved. Speaking against segregation was actually a crime and nobody did it. The blacks had to be more careful about this situation than the middle-class whites because the white families made sure their names were never infamously out in the

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    Hollywood in the 1930's

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    Hollywood in the 1930’s The film industry was a big source of entertainment in the 1930’s. During the Great Depression‚ spending money on entertainment wasn’t reasonable for people. Audiences always looked for "light-hearted screwballs" that would make them forget their troubles for some time (Hollywood and the Film Industry). In the 1930’s‚ Hollywood movie studios were having trouble financing the transition from silent to talking pictures due to the stock market crash 1929. The movie industry

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    Dust Bowl of the 1930s

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    Bowl of the 1930’s had such an antagonistic effect on the United States economy that was already plummeting. The Dust Bowl affected the U.S economy in just about every way possible ranging from agriculture to finances including government expenses to population changes. This phenomena can be considered as one of the worst natural disasters that has affected the United States. The “Dust Bowl” was the name given to the Great Plains region that was greatly affected by drought in the 1930’s during the

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