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TOPICS:
-The Great Depression
-Censorship
-Banned Book List
-Dorthea Lange Photography
-Migrant Workers in the 1930s
-Jim Crow Law and the Jim Crow South

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Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk of Lightning

Premiere date: August 29, 2014 | 0:01:45

When she was in her early twenties, Dorothea Lange decided to leave New York City and travel the world with a friend. They only made it as far as San Francisco, where a pickpocket stole all their money and ended their world travels.

Lange had already learned photography through her apprenticeship to photographer Arthur Genthe in New York City. In 1919 at the age of 24, she opened her own portrait studio in San Francisco. She worked many solitary hours there but her studio also became a place where artists came to socialize.

Of her early work as a portrait photographer, Lange said, "I did all the work myself. It was a successful studio. But I worked 18 hours, 20 hours, every day. I really worked. I was determined that I could make that go. And I did."

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Dorothea Lange | Lange's Start in Photography | American Masters | PBS

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When she was in her early twenties, Dorothea Lange decided to leave New York City and travel the world with a friend. They only made it as far as San Francisco, where a pickpocket stole all their money and ended their world travels. Lange had already learned photography through her apprenticeship to photographer Arthur Genthe ...

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A 1965 documentary film, written and narrated by Richard Moore, about the life of documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, who died on October 11, 1965 of esophageal cancer, during post-production of this film.

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USA: Photography - Dorothea Lange: Under the Trees | THIRTEEN Specials

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A 1965 documentary film, written and narrated by Richard Moore, about the life of documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, who died on October 11, 1965 of esophageal cancer, during post-production of this film.

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Migrant Mother Photo Video - The Great Depression - HISTORY.com

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The Migrant Mother image is one of a series of photographs that Dorothea Lange made in February or March 1936 in Nipomo, California.

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Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk of Lightning

Premiere date: August 29, 2014 | 0:02:41

Coinciding with the Great Depression was the Dust Bowl, an eco-disaster created through a combination of drought and damaging agricultural practices. Farmers reported that their land literally blew away, forcing families from Nebraska to Texas to migrate. Dorothea Lange and her husband Paul S. Taylor documented the very start of the mass migration to California.

The couple were the first to witness and to understand the causes of this huge migration of hundreds of thousands of people, according to Linda Gordon, professor of history at New York University and author of Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits.

In this film excerpt, Dorothea describes photographing the first packed car of migrants entering California (pictured above): "That was the first car I saw that came out of the Dust Bowl. And that was the day the darn thing was discovered - what was happening. Nobody knew it. And then there was a rush. Never has stopped - that influx."

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Dorothea Lange | Documenting the Dust Bowl Exodus | American Masters | PBS

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Coinciding with the Great Depression was the Dust Bowl, an eco-disaster created through a combination of drought and damaging agricultural practices. Farmers reported that their land literally blew away, forcing families from Nebraska to Texas to migrate. Dorothea Lange and her husband Paul S. Taylor documented the very start of the mass migration to California.

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Her celebrated photograph Migrant Mother is one of the most recognized and arresting images in the world, a haunting portrait that came to represent the suffering of America's Great Depression. Yet few know the story, struggles and profound body of work of the woman who created the portrait: Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 - Oct. 11, 1965).

American Masters - Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning explores the life, passions and uncompromising vision of the influential photographer, whose enduring images document five turbulent decades of American history, including the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and World War II Japanese internment camps. Peabody- and five-time Emmy award-winning cinematographer Dyanna Taylor - the granddaughter of Lange and writer/social scientist Paul Schuster Taylor - directs and narrates this intimate American Masters documentary.

Taylor, who learned to see the visual world through her grandmother's eyes, combines family memories and journals with never-before-seen photos and film footage to bring Lange's story into sharp focus. The result is a personal documentary of the artist whose empathy for people on the margins of society challenged America to know itself.

The film features newly discovered interviews and vérité scenes with Lange from her Bay Area home studio, circa 1962-1965, including work on her unprecedented, one-woman career retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Showcasing more than 800 works by Lange, her first husband Maynard Dixon and second husband Paul Schuster Taylor combined, American Masters - Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning reveals the camera as Lange's first muse and the confluence of artists at work and in love. Explaining the impact of these relationships on Lange's life and documentary photography style, filmmaker/narrator Dyanna Taylor demonstrates the challenges of balancing artistic pursuits and family.

The documentary weaves Lange telling her own story with new interviews of family, friends and colleagues, including Lange's son Daniel Dixon; Lange's goddaughter and biographer Elizabeth Partridge; Richard Conrad, Lange's assistant for the MoMA exhibit; photographer Rondal Partridge, Lange's assistant and son of photographers Imogen Cunningham and Roi Partridge; Becky Jenkins, Maynard Dixon's granddaughter; Dr. Margot Taylor-Fanger, Paul Schuster Taylor's daughter; and many others.

"My grandmother's photographs grew out of her depth as a person. Ever since I began my career in filmmaking, I've wanted to make a film which would express the true breadth of her work and the ways she perceived the world," said Dyanna Taylor, whose past work on American Masters films includes Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea and F. Scott Fitzgerald - Winter Dreams. "During my young years, as we spent time together, she taught me how to see, to understand that nothing is as it appears at first glance."

"We are fortunate to have a family member, who is also a talented filmmaker, telling Dorothea Lange's remarkable life story in a way that no one else possibly could," said Michael Kantor, executive producer of American Masters.

Launched in 1986 by series creator Susan Lacy, American Masters has earned 26 Emmy Awards - including nine for Outstanding Non-Fiction Series since 1999 and five for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special - 12 Peabodys, an Oscar, three Grammys, two Producers Guild Awards, and many other honors. Now in its 28th season on PBS, the series is a production of THIRTEEN PRODUCTIONS LLC for WNET. WNET is the parent company of THIRTEEN and WLIW21, New York's public television stations, and operator of NJTV. For more than 50 years, THIRTEEN has been a partner with the tri-state community, using its rich resources to inform and inspire the passionate people of New York and the world to better understand and address the issues that challenge our diverse communities.

Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning is a co-production of Raven Rouge, Inc., Katahdin Productions and THIRTEEN PRODUCTIONS LLC's American Masters for WNET. Dyanna Taylor is producer, writer and director. Roberta Grossman is producer. David Leach is editor. Jami Sieber and Evan Schiller are original score composers. Susan Lacy, Michael Kantor and Lisa Thomas are executive producers.

American Masters is made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Rosalind P. Walter, The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, Rolf and Elizabeth Rosenthal, Jack Rudin, Vital Projects Fund, The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation, Michael & Helen Schaffer Foundation, and public television viewers. Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning is made possible by the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Cal Humanities.

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Her celebrated photograph Migrant Mother is one of the most recognized and arresting images in the world, a haunting portrait that came to represent the suffering of America's Great Depression. Yet few know the story, struggles and profound body of work of the woman who created the portrait: Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 - Oct.

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Defining Jim Crow Laws

The term 'Jim Crow' originally referred to a black character in an old song. Around 1828, minstrel performer Thomas Rice blackened his face, dressed in old clothes, and imitated an old black man. Rice published the words to the song 'Jump Jim Crow' in the 1830s.

Beginning in the 1880s, Jim Crow referred to practices, laws, or institutions that served to separate black people from white people. The most common types of Jim Crow laws forbid intermarriage and separated black and white citizens in public places, especially in restaurants and theaters. States and cities were allowed to punish people who broke these laws.

Below are some examples of Jim Crow laws from various states.

In Alabama, no person or corporation could require a white female nurse to work in a hospital ward or room in which a black man was present.

It was illegal for a white person and a black person to play billiards together in Alabama.

In Wyoming, any marriage between a white person and a person considered Negro, Mulatto, Mongolian, or Malaya was illegal and void.

In Georgia, mental health facilities were required to provide white patients with living spaces separate from black patients.

Black barbers in Georgia were not permitted to cut the hair of white females.

In Louisiana, a circus with both black and white people in the audience was required to have separate ticket boxes for the two races situated more than 25 feet apart.

The Fight Against Jim Crow

In 1892, Homer Plessy (who was classified as 1/8 black) took a seat in a whites-only car on a Louisiana train. He refused to move and was arrested. His case, the famous Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896), went all the way to the Supreme Court. The decision of this case deemed that separate facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long they were equal.

On July 26, 1948, President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9981. This executive order abolished racial discrimination in the military. Truman's decision was a historic one, and many blacks believed this decision would provide momentum to end Jim Crow.

In 1954, the Supreme Court declared separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional, when Brown vs. Board of Education overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision of 1896. The case was filed when Oliver Brown's daughter, Linda, was denied entrance to her local elementary school, which was only seven blocks from her home, due to 'separate but equal' segregation. Instead, she had to walk six blocks to a bus stop and ride the bus for one mile to a black school. This decision paved the way for integrated schools.

The End of Jim Crow

The 1963 March on Washington was one of the largest rallies for human rights. The march called for civil and economic rights for African Americans. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic 'I Have A Dream' speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The march is credited with helping to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. These historic pieces of legislation helped end the Jim Crow era.

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What Are Jim Crow Laws? - Definition, Examples & History - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com

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The term 'Jim Crow' originally referred to a black character in an old song. Around 1828, minstrel performer Thomas Rice blackened his face, dressed in old clothes, and imitated an old black man. Rice published the words to the song 'Jump Jim Crow' in the 1830s.

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What Are Jim Crow Laws?

Imagine what it was like to be a Southern slave living during the Civil War Era. Your hopes were aroused with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Even so, because you lived in the Confederate States of America, your master could care less about Lincoln's executive order. But at last, after two more long years, you experienced elation as the South surrendered to Union forces. At long last, you were free!

Yet. . . as you made your way in this strange new world, everywhere you encountered local laws intended to prevent you from succeeding in life. These laws restricted the freedom you thought you had attained. True, you were no longer a slave, but under some of these laws you weren't free either.

These laws were called Jim Crow laws. Okay, but who was Jim Crow? Even before the Civil War took place, the term Jim Crow was derogatory slang for 'negro.' It is believed that the origin of the term dates back to the 1820s or so when a white comedian wrote a song and dance called 'Jump Jim Crow' about a disabled slave. Soon the term caught on and, by the outbreak of the Civil War, was a common nickname for black slaves and free African-Americans.

Jim Crow laws existed primarily between the end of the Civil War to the mid-1960s. They took many forms and varied considerably by locale, but segregation and discrimination were common themes. Let's learn more about Jim Crow laws.

After the Civil War

The immediate aftermath of the Civil War is called Reconstruction, or the Reconstruction Era, which took place between 1865 and 1877. Southern Democrats were particularly active in passing Jim Crow laws in the aftermath of the Civil War. There was widespread resentment because the North had won the war and slaves were now free.

To maintain white dominance and keep free blacks from gaining affluence, they legislated varieties of Jim Crow laws. Many Jim Crow laws had to do with voting. For example, the ability to read was often held as voting requirement, and it was previously forbidden for slaves to read. Land ownership was also a requirement in certain areas. These requirements were intended to prevent black Americans from voting and thus gaining political power. By the turn of the century, arbitrary requirements effectively barred black males from voting.

Segregation was another key component of Jim Crow laws. Segregation refers to the policy of keeping black and white Americans separate from one another. For example, this would involve separate drinking foundations for blacks and whites, separate bathrooms, schools, libraries, etc. Typically, the black facility was inferior due to a lack of funding and a lack of interest by the mainstream white community. In parts of Texas, for example, zoning ordinances kept black and white residents from living in the same area.

In 1875, the Enforcement Act, or the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was passed by 'Radical Republicans' in an effort to end Jim Crow laws. Unfortunately, the act was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1883.

In the 20th Century

With the Supreme Court's apparent sanctioning of racism in 1883, Jim Crow laws thrived well into the 20th century. On occasion they were challenged, as was the case in the 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson. In this case Homer Plessy, an African-American, took a seat in a 'white only' section of a train and refused to move. The Supreme Court ruled that 'separate but equal' segregation was, in fact, constitutional. This ruling led to another seventy years of Jim Crow laws.

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Jim Crow Laws: Significance, Facts & Timeline - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com

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Imagine what it was like to be a Southern slave living during the Civil War Era. Your hopes were aroused with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Even so, because you lived in the Confederate States of America, your master could care less about Lincoln's executive order.

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Understanding the systems of racial separation and institutionalized segregation that are known as Jim Crow is essential for understanding the setting of . In this activity, watch the video "Understanding Jim Crow" and use connection questions to better grasp the time and setting of To Kill A Mockingbird.

This is Handout 3.2 from Teaching Mockingbird. It has been renamed.

Use the following questions to guide your note-taking and reflection on the video "Understanding Jim Crow (Setting the Setting)".

1. David Cunningham describes Jim Crow segregation as both a system of laws and a system of customs. What is the difference between laws and customs? Which are more difficult to change?

2. Why did Mississippi and Alabama have fewer formal Jim Crow laws than other states in the South?

3. In what ways did black and white lives overlap in Alabama in the 1930s? In what ways were they completely separated?

4. What was the effect of the Depression on the relationships between whites and blacks in the Jim Crow South? Why?

5. What were some of the unwritten rules of segregation? What were some of the complications around those rules?

6. How were gender roles different between white and black Americans?

7. What were the consequences of questioning Jim Crow? How do you think they were different for blacks and whites?

8. How did this video help shed light on written and unwritten rules of life in Maycomb? What characters, choices, and events in the book so far did this video help you better understand?

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Understanding the systems of racial separation and institutionalized segregation that are known as Jim Crow is essential for understanding the setting of . In this activity, watch the video "Understanding Jim Crow" and use connection questions to better grasp the time and setting of To Kill A Mockingbird.

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A recorded movie on the history of Jim Crow Laws a team of college students put together in Fall of 2011. Feel free to use for classroom or educational use. All material has been verified. Script by Rachael Blankenbecklor Video by Zach Anderson Narration by John Savage

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A recorded movie on the history of Jim Crow Laws a team of college students put together in Fall of 2011. Feel free to use for classroom or educational use. All material has been verified. I've removed comments because apparently everyone is forgetting to be nice around here.

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Dorothea Lange Great Collection - HQ photos

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New Report Documents 4,000 Lynchings in Jim Crow South

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Of Mice and Men Context   The Great Depression

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The Great Depression: Crash Course US History #33

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The 1930s Exclusive Videos & Features - HISTORY.com

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Defining Jim Crow Laws

The term 'Jim Crow' originally referred to a black character in an old song. Around 1828, minstrel performer Thomas Rice blackened his face, dressed in old clothes, and imitated an old black man. Rice published the words to the song 'Jump Jim Crow' in the 1830s.

Beginning in the 1880s, Jim Crow referred to practices, laws, or institutions that served to separate black people from white people. The most common types of Jim Crow laws forbid intermarriage and separated black and white citizens in public places, especially in restaurants and theaters. States and cities were allowed to punish people who broke these laws.

Below are some examples of Jim Crow laws from various states.

In Alabama, no person or corporation could require a white female nurse to work in a hospital ward or room in which a black man was present.

It was illegal for a white person and a black person to play billiards together in Alabama.

In Wyoming, any marriage between a white person and a person considered Negro, Mulatto, Mongolian, or Malaya was illegal and void.

In Georgia, mental health facilities were required to provide white patients with living spaces separate from black patients.

Black barbers in Georgia were not permitted to cut the hair of white females.

In Louisiana, a circus with both black and white people in the audience was required to have separate ticket boxes for the two races situated more than 25 feet apart.

The Fight Against Jim Crow

In 1892, Homer Plessy (who was classified as 1/8 black) took a seat in a whites-only car on a Louisiana train. He refused to move and was arrested. His case, the famous Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896), went all the way to the Supreme Court. The decision of this case deemed that separate facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long they were equal.

On July 26, 1948, President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9981. This executive order abolished racial discrimination in the military. Truman's decision was a historic one, and many blacks believed this decision would provide momentum to end Jim Crow.

In 1954, the Supreme Court declared separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional, when Brown vs. Board of Education overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision of 1896. The case was filed when Oliver Brown's daughter, Linda, was denied entrance to her local elementary school, which was only seven blocks from her home, due to 'separate but equal' segregation. Instead, she had to walk six blocks to a bus stop and ride the bus for one mile to a black school. This decision paved the way for integrated schools.

The End of Jim Crow

The 1963 March on Washington was one of the largest rallies for human rights. The march called for civil and economic rights for African Americans. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic 'I Have A Dream' speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The march is credited with helping to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. These historic pieces of legislation helped end the Jim Crow era.

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What Are Jim Crow Laws? - Definition, Examples & History - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com

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The term 'Jim Crow' originally referred to a black character in an old song. Around 1828, minstrel performer Thomas Rice blackened his face, dressed in old clothes, and imitated an old black man. Rice published the words to the song 'Jump Jim Crow' in the 1830s.

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1930s America & The Great Depression

The 1930s was a dark time in American history. Jobs and family life were harshly challenged by a long-lasting economic decline that left the country in a state of mass unemployment. Many people were affected by extreme social and psychological changes, as well as major financial losses. Several factors played roles in this economic tragedy, known as the Great Depression.

The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was one factor. Additionally, people experienced a loss of personal savings due to the collapse of banks. There were mass layoffs of factory workers due to inability to pay employees. Further, devastating drought in the Great Plains, resulted in the loss of crops. All of these incidents caused women of various backgrounds, statuses and ethnicities to adjust to a way of life far from what they were use to.

More Women Join the Workforce

Role changes became the norm for women coping with and adapting to the economic changes brought on by the Great Depression. Men were drastically removed from the position of breadwinner, and many women were thrust into the position of working outside of the home. For the first time, a significant number of women made up about 25% of the workforce.

Places of employment for women included restaurants, factories, laundries and beauty shops. Some women worked as teachers, secretaries, librarians and nurses. And so, the Great Depression, though an economic crisis, served as an opportunity for women to increase their presence in the workforce.

Pursuing Higher Education

Before the Great Depression, the chances of women furthering their education were slim. However, during the drastic economic change, some women (especially those who were unmarried) took the opportunity to attend college. In the past, females would generally rely on their husbands for financial support. But with the growing number of men without employment--and therefore unfit for marriage--women began to take their financial futures into their own hands, turning to college for training for future careers.

Improving Family Living

The Great Depression forced women to make changes in how their homes and families functioned. With many men suddenly unemployed and at home all day, husbands and wives found themselves quarreling much more often. Some men, facing the shame associated with unemployment, turned to drinking or abandoned their families altogether. In any case, women played a large part in keeping the peace in the household, making creative efforts to help all members of the family adjust to the new situation.

The efforts to save and make money during the Great Depression also took its toll on family life. Many women, whether they were working or not, preserved old clothing and cultivated vegetable gardens, adding to the already laborious duties of a homemaker at the time. Girls were expected to help around the house while their mothers worked outside of the home. Boys took on the jobs of doing janitorial work, delivering newspapers and working as clerks in neighborhood stores, among other low-paying jobs.

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The 1930s was a dark time in American history. Jobs and family life were harshly challenged by a long-lasting economic decline that left the country in a state of mass unemployment. Many people were affected by extreme social and psychological changes, as well as major financial losses.

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In his April 28, 1935, fireside chat radio broadcast, President Franklin D. Roosevelt praises the newly adopted Works Relief Program and discusses the new Social Security Act recently introduced in Congress.

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Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk of Lightning

Premiere date: July 13, 2011 | 0:04:30

On March 11, 1936, Dorthea Lange's iconic image, Migrant Mother, was published in the San Francisco News. Since that first publication, the iconic photo has come to represent America's Great Depression and the strain of poverty in rural America.

Migrant Mother is part of the body of work Dorothea Lange created while working for the Farm Security Administration. Many of Lange's photographs of migrant farmers, sharecroppers and Dust Bowl farmers from that period are held today at the Library of Congress. While researching the film American Masters - Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning, director Dyanna Taylor - Lange's granddaughter - visited the Library of Congress to discuss Lange's photos with a curator at the library.

Migrant Mother is just one of a series of photos Lange shot at a pea pickers' camp in California. It was a stop she almost didn't make. She had passed the sign for the camp while driving home from another assignment, and after some miles of thinking about it, turned her car around to visit the camp. The story of the photo is discussed in Taylor's very first visit to the Lange collection at the Library of Congress, which was filmed for Picturing America (July 2011), a program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Learn about the life of the woman depicted in the famous photograph, in this Antiques Roadshow article on Florence Thompson. Antiques Roadshow appraises the Migrant Mother photograph in a web exclusive video.

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Jim Crow Laws

Imagine that you are a teenager, and you're ready to go to high school. You really want to go to high school and maybe even college because you enjoy learning and want to get a good job in the future.

But there's a problem. You live on a farm in the middle of nowhere, and the only school in the area won't allow you to attend because of the color of your skin.

There are dozens of scenarios I could ask you to imagine about what it was like to be black in the Jim Crow South. I could ask you to think about going to a movie with friends, only to be shut out because the only theater in town is whites-only. I could ask you to imagine traveling to a new town, only to discover that none of the hotels or motels would allow you to check in. What if you were on the road and starving but couldn't eat at any restaurants?

For the first century after the American Civil War, Jim Crow laws, or segregation laws, sprang up in the South. These laws kept power in the hands of whites, while keeping black Americans from being able to get the same benefits of society as their neighbors.

Of all the places that the Jim Crow laws hurt African Americans, perhaps the most poignant was in the education system, where millions of children were shut out of a good education because of the color of their skin. Let's look closer at how the Jim Crow laws impacted American education.

Separate & Unequal

Even when the Jim Crow laws were being enacted, many people (including white people) felt that they were not fair. They believed that blacks and whites should have equal access to opportunity.

So how did the Jim Crow laws manage to be passed if many people believed that everyone should be equal? The phrase 'separate but equal' was a common refrain in the Jim Crow South. Proponents of the laws said that they provided equal opportunities for everyone, though in separate quarters.

Of course, that was not true at all. In education, for example, black schools received on average far less money than white schools. Because of that, school conditions were vastly different. White school buildings were maintained far better than black school buildings, and white classrooms were less crowded. White schools could afford to pay for the best educators.

Some black schools even had inequality of materials. In some places, black schools were not allowed to use textbooks with the Constitution or Declaration of Independence in them, because the white school boards feared that would lead to black students wanting equality and freedom.

And that was just the inequalities between the students who had access to school at all. Remember when I asked you to imagine that you wanted to go to school but couldn't because the only school in your area was all-white? Sadly, this was true for many people.

After the Civil War, most African Americans in the South lived in rural areas. Those small towns and farming communities could often only afford to support one school, and so the only school offered was whites-only. For many blacks, that meant that the only black school available to them was too far away for them to attend.

Rosenwald Schools

Amongst all the depressing news about education in the Jim Crow South, there is one bright spot. It started in 1912, with a collaboration between millionaire Julius Rosenwald, who was the head of Sears Roebuck & Company, and Booker T. Washington, a famous black educator.

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Migrant Farmers In The 1930's After WW1, there was a recession. This lead to a drop in the price of farm crops. In order to meet increased productivity demand, many farmers bought more land and expensive equipment, plunging themselves into debt.

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Video created for a GCSE English lesson on The Great Depression linking to John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.

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