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Who Was Affected During The Great Depression? (Inga)

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Who Was Affected During The Great Depression? (Inga)

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Alabama's farm families were the first to experience the damaging effects of the Depression, as cotton prices decreased significantly. Unable to make a living on cotton, some farmers left to find work in cities. Others fell deeper into debt and tenancy. Between 1920 and 1930, the number of landowners plummeted. It was a decline that affected the white farmers more than the black ones. In fact, as a result of falling land prices and African Americans returning to the South, black ownership of land increased slightly during the 1920s. Although they tended to own smaller, less profitable farms than white owners, the number of tenant farmers still increased globally over the course of the decade.

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Harper Lee was raised in Monroeville, Alabama and went to high school there. She went to Huntingdon College in Montgomery but transferred the next year to the University of Alabama where she then studied law for a couple years but never got a degree. This place, Monroeville, is where her hit novel To Kill a Mockingbird is  inspired. Some of the characters in the book are based off of real people. One of these resemblances being Dill to Harper's childhood friend named Truman Capote who would also become a novelist.

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Better know as her pen name, Harper Lee (Nelle Harper Lee), was a aspiring tom boy, the youngest born in her family. She was a small town aspiring writer, who was born on April 26 1926 in Monroeville Alabama, and she passed on February 19 2016. During her life she grew up much like Scout, a tough tomboy, with her childhood friend being more feebly then she was. It is because of these experiences that she was inspired to write the Best-Selling book To Kill a Mockingbird

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Basically, these laws established by the government in the 1880's allowed for town's, cities, and practically all white people to separate and discriminate against Africans. These were the first laws to allow the discrimination and the seg of the

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One of the main focuses of the civil rights movements was the "separate but equal" laws in the United States. Often times facilities were separate but not equal. A few examples, Water fountains, separate waiting rooms, separate banks, different cafes, also different churches.  The supreme court ruled on Schools, and public buildings no longer being allowed to be separate in 1964.

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The leader of the civil rights movements in the 60's, was Martin Luther King Jr., many of which movement started with boycotting, and standing up against the many laws, and segregated acts against African people.

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Even though the south lost the war, its very unlikely the attitudes of the south actually changed at all. People don't really change once wars are lost, their ideals are still heavily embedded into their hearts and minds, just as before the war.

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Alabama was a slave state. They were apart of the south, and they intended to keep the slaves that they had. Once the war started Alabama quickly joined the confederate states, during the civil war. They were a large contributor of supplies for war, soldiers, and military materials. Those farmers not fighting were hit hard, the selling of their cotton was almost non existent, because there was no trade with other states.

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This town was a lively town, with many farmers and shops lining the streets. Like most of 1930's in America segregation was evident. This town had one main street, much like in "To Kill A Mockingbird ".

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Located in the black belt region, the fertile soil of this small county produced mainly cotton. Also known as Green county, this town is the least populated county in Alabama. Almost 80% of the population was African origin. Like most places in Alabama, racism was strong,

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Located in the black belt region of Alabama, many were farmers, of corn and of cotton. Life for white people in Selma was much more luxurious then the African population. During both world wars black men and poor white men when to fight in war. Segregation was strict in Selma during the 1930's even though the African population was about half, schools, movie theaters, all being enforced by violence if necessary. It was not fun to be coloured in this town.

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The Crash also known as black Tuesday, was in October of 1929. What happened was people had too much faith that the stock market could only grow, expand. But people started to panic, not trusting that the banks had  all of their money that they had invested in the "roaring" twenties. The stock market crashed, causing economic downfall. Although the Economy basically hit rock bottom, the economy had no where else to go except up. But It wouldn't get to the same place as it was in the previous years. This crash marked the start of the great depression.

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Cotton farming was very popular in the southern United States during the early 1920's. Much of the U.S was experiencing an economic boom and people made a living because the demand for cotton was high. But because of the over production and the introduction of other man made fabrics during the mid 1920's , the price of cotton dropped drastically. To add onto the fact, a drought was to layer on top of the hardships of the cotton farmers, this all occurring before the Great Depression officially began.

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Life during the Great Depression (Sydney)

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Life during the Great Depression (Sydney)

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In the first three years of the depression, 13 million americans had lost their jobs or their source of income. Those who were lucky enough to still have jobs were drastically reduced to part-time hours. During the depression not much had changes for the African American population in Alabama, small pay, segregation and many hardships were endured before the depression started and still continued through. Families squeezed every cent they could from bartering, and selling what they could, only managing to get by. Only the luckiest upper/middle class got the luxury of keeping their houses. Farmers desperately tried to sell their land, who's soil was not good for farming, and move to the cities to get jobs. Only the luckiest upper/middle with solid jobs class got the luxury of keeping their houses.

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The Great Depression Southern USA (Inga)

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The Great Depression Southern USA (Inga)

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The Great Depression, that started in October of 1929 (the stock market crash) and continued on for about 10 years, was known to be the most damaging and long-lasting economic down-turn in the history of the Western industrialized world. The two presidents occuring during this time were Herbert Hoover, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who took the majority of the depression times, assuming presidency in 1933. For some Alabamians, the Great Depression lasted into the early 1940s, which was longer than the nation as a whole. The era played a role in reshaping the state's political, economic, and social traditions. It also highlighted the economic inequalities related to industrial work, and challenged Alabama's long-standing social and racial hierarchies, even encouraging some Alabamians, black and white, to push for basic civil rights.

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The Scottsboro Boys: (Miranda)
Charlie Weems, Ozie Powell, Clarence Norris, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Haywood Patterson, Eugene Williams, and Andrew and Leroy Wright.

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The Scottsboro boys were nine African American teenagers falsely accused by a group of white males of raping two white women in 1931, Alabama. They were arrested and tried 12 days later in the courtroom of Judge A. E. Hawkins. They lacked appropriate council and physical evidence. The prisoners were brought to the court by 118 guards armed with machine guns. All but 12-year-old, Leroy Wright, were convicted of rape and sentenced to death, but ended up in many retrials. Later two of the victims came forward and told prosecutors that they were pressured into falsely accusing the black males and later joined the campaign that was trying to save their lives. All but four were them sentenced to different prison sentences.