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The use of certain treatments for mental illness changed with every medical advance. Although hydrotherapy, metrazol convulsion, insulin, and shock therapy were popular in the 1930s, these methods gave way to psychotherapy in the 1940s. By the 1950s, doctors favored artificial fever therapy and electroshock therapy.

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Physicians used hydrotherapy through various sorts hot and cold baths and showers extensively in the treatment of the insane this was often done for hours at a time.

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Al Capone, a famous gangster opened soup kitchens during The Great Depression.People in during the depression were so hungry that they would try to eat their own hands.Movies that came out in The Great Depression. "The Wizard of Oz," "Gone With the Wind," "King Kong." 60-80 million people still went to the movies each week.

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-Racial discrimination was not illegal in during the 1930's and was practiced widely and freely, the blacks were counted as second class citizens

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At the beginning of the 20th century, women’s role was largely limited to the home or domestic work.

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In 1866 and from 1888 women could vote in many local council elections, but women still had few rights in 1900.

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The majority of working women were unmarried, and they were limited to roles in teaching, nursing or domestic work.

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Many doctors in the in 1950s believed in electroshock therapy as a perfectly acceptable form of treatment the common belief was that if you induce a seizure you could cure schizophrenia and other mental illnesses

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A thoroughfare from the dust bowl region to the central valley of california.

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Many migrants were tenant farmers who were displaced due to the dust bowl in the midwest and they moved to california to find work.

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Served as a World War II correspondent for New York Herald Tribune

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-The lynching (hanging) of black people was common and not illegal, during the years 1882-1968 4,743 people were lynched, 3,446 of them were african american

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-The Chinese exclusion act was not repealed until 1943, and the only reason it was repealed was for the United States and China to be WWII allies

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The migrants were conservative and ethno centric those who were not the same race. They were faced with low wags and many had to set up camp in farmers fields with poor sanitary conditions and no health care

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A manual laborer before achieving success as a writer