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This movie goes into detail about the struggles that James Braddock and his family face during the great depression. Braddock struggles to find jobs and ways to take care of his family. This movie shows the reality of the great depression by speaking about the government, financial welfare, Hooverville's, etc...

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"When they need us they call us migrants. When we picked their crops we're bums and we've got to get out"
-migratory worker, in This Fabulous Century

This mural was painted by artist Conrad A. Albrizio. This mural shows FDR standing in the center of many migrant workers. On the left side of the mural, you can see men doing jobs that are vigorous and tough. On the left-right of the mural, it shows men and women working jobs that are different from the jobs on the left. Although they are both equally important the right side of the mural is very significant. The men and women working in jobs that migrant workers were less likely to work in, at that time.

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In the time of the great depression, the United States was at an all-time low. The people felt let down and ashamed about the government. In that time of need, the United States had found its heroes to restore the countries hope.

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“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.”

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"No work, no hope: just live from one day to the next. Maybe better times are coming. Personally, I doubt it."
- small-town wife, 1933, in Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letter from the Forgotten Man

A "Hooverville" was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it. Hooverville's were built near large cities around the United States. On average, Hooverville's housed about 8,000 homeless people from 1930-1936.

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Long as I can work, I'll get along somehow
- Mother suffering from tuberculosis, in This Fabulous Century

This video explains the effects of the great depression on families. It shows the hardships and sacrifices that families had to go through in order to survive the great depression.

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The Great Depression: How Were Families Affected?

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I'll work for fifteen [cents]. I'll work for food. The kids. You ought to see them. Little boils, like, comin' out, an' they can't run aroun'. Give 'em some windfall fruit, an' they bloated up. Me. I'll work for a little piece of meat. ...the children of the poor grew up rachitic, and the pustules of pellegra swelled on their sides.
- From the Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck was a successful writer during the 1930s. In 1939 he wrote a novel named The Grapes of Wrath. This novel was based on the migration of a family from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California. The Grapes of Wrath brought awareness to the injustices that migrant workers dealt with during the Great Depression.

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They used to tell me I was building a dream, and so I followed the mob,

When there was earth to plow, or guns to bear, I was always there right on the job.

They used to tell me I was building a dream, with peace and glory ahead,

Why should I be standing in line, just waiting for bread?

Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against time.

Once I built a railroad; now it’s done. Brother, can you spare a dime?

Once I built a tower, up to the sun, brick, and rivet, and lime;

Once I built a tower, now it’s done. Brother, can you spare a dime?

Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell,

Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum,

Half a million boots went slogging through Hell,

And I was the kid with the drum!

Say, don’t you remember, they called me Al; it was Al all the time.

Why don’t you remember, I’m your pal? Buddy, can you spare a dime?

Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell,

Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum,

Half a million boots went slogging through Hell,
And I was the kid with the drum!

Say, don’t you remember, they called me Al; it was Al all the time.

Say, don’t you remember, I’m your pal? Buddy, can you spare a dime?

In this poem, a beggar is speaking to the business that stole his job. The beggar asks why the men who have fought for the country and have helped to build are being abandoned by the government. This poem was written not to depress the people, but to motivate the people to think about the injustices that they are facing.

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It was an enormously hard life...But there was also a sense of great satisfaction in being a child with valuable work to do and, being able to do it well, to function in this world.
-Margot Hentoff in Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man

While the US was facing its challenges many schools began to shut down due to underfunding as well as children not being able to attend. Many families were so desperate for food and money that children had to find jobs to contribute for money. Children worked odd jobs such as shoe shining, selling paper, and more.

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FDR helped the US recover from the great depression. He was seen as a national hero and the hope of the country. During the great depression he proposed the New Deal. This would expand the role of the federal government in the nation’s economy in an effort to address the challenges of the Great Depression.

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Effects of the Great Depression on families

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Effects of the Great Depression on families

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"I only want a common living to exist without starving and freezing to death"
- Anonymous letter to FDR in 1935, in Down and OUT in the great depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man

During the time of the great depression families fell into poverty. Many men left their families out of frustration or embarrassment. The suicide rate was up to an all-time high. Many people had negative views of the government and were embarrassed to go on government welfare plans.

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