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94American History and Poverty: Fighting The Great Depression
The years from 1929 through 1941 were difficult to survive for many people in America - and the world at large. Read about some of the ways that people fought for survival in those days.
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84Immigration Policy in the Depression
"Los Angeles Police Chief Sends Patrolmen to Guard Border" Like the headline? Care to guess when it was printed? February 15, 1936. Here's the kicker question: Which border was being guarded? It wasn't...
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81The Michigan Dust Bowl - Big Prairie Desert
The Dust Bowl in Michigan began with a settlement in 1850 that created miles of desert by 1870 with the early logging indusry. Then a ladies' Cemetery Society brought new life to a dying land, creating useful green spaces and historic districts.
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81Chapter 4 - Yes, Mom, I do Remember
My family arrived in Weedpatch, California. Food and work was available...
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81Aquafear for Aquifers
While many are worried about globing warming, water pollution, depletion of forests because of over logging and other real and imagined man made environmental calamities; a real calamity is bubbling away...
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79The Great Depression
After World War I, in the 1920s the United States entered a period of great prosperity. During this decade the American people became very optimistic. This trust in the future was suddenly shattered one day,...
80US History: The Great Depression
Much occurred in US History before and during the Great Depression. 4,000,000 people were left wandering the country, still looking for work in 1939. The New Deal did bring some relief.
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79The Dust Bowl, Surviving the Dirty Thirties
Black Sunday The Dust Bowl Surviving The Dirty Thirties It is the summer of 1932. Glenda Polk, a wife and young mother of two makes her way down an eerily abandoned street in a small town in rural Oklahoma. Held close against her body is an...
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78Tobacco Road - Poverty and Humor
"Tobacco Road" is the dirt road farmers hauled their harvested tobacco crops along to the market for sale. It means povry and pain. The crops were originally hauled in animal powered wagons during the Plantation Era in the American South. Sometimes, when there were no draft animals left, African slaves themselves pulled the wagons...
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77How do you survive with no income?
You can survive from self generated income (by that I mean things of value, the currency doesn't necessarily have to be the dollar). The easiest method is to own some land in a decent climate, with a good garden and a few animals, your income...
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