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The worst years of the Great Depression were 1932-1933.

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The Great Depression Falls, but another conflict brews...

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The Great Depression Falls, but another conflict brews...

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The Great Depression began to end during 1939, and unemployment increased greatly as America entered WWII

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Salinas, CA - A Prosperous Farming Community

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Salinas, CA - A Prosperous Farming Community

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In 1902, climate here was cool and often foggy. Temperatures were often moderate. These ideal temperatures made the soil rich.  Lettuce became the “green gold” of the Salinas Valley.

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Migrant workers were often subjected to harsher working conditions and lower pay because of desperation for work. The migrant worker camps often had no electricity or indoor plumbing

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1. The stock market crash of 1929
2. Overproduction of consumer goods
3. Unregulated banks
4. Little to no financial protection during market crash - The loss of life savings was devastating.

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1. Countless people lost their jobs and sources of income.
2. Families would break up to fend for themselves, starting with fathers abandoning their wife and kids out of shame.
3. Attempts from President Hoover were strong and planned out, but to no avail.
4. Many businesses were closed due to no money, leading to less buying power.

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Approx. 7 million starved to dealth

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The majority of people affected  by the great depression did nothing whatsoever. Stocks crashed and loans unpaid.  Banks no longer had money therefore the money that they used  (which were people's savings deposited in the bank)  were lost.

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In the Great depression almost everyone went homeless and jobless.
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Worst economic downturn in the history of the modern era - SR

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Salinas is in the top ten American Cities for cleanest air quality. Steven Schalk

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The Great Depression, beginning in the United States, had a worldwide economic impact. It changed living conditions all over the U.S. and Europe. People migrated to better lands in hope of finding a job that would give them the pay to survive. 7 Million people died and over 13 million people were on food support of some sort. With the need for jobs and better health conditions growing by the day, people all over the world saw no way of escaping the suffering.

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During the Great Depression, banks ran out of money and people who came to withdraw all There money we’re screwed - lex

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In a single day during the great depression the United States lost a total of $14 billion-SJ

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In a single day during the great depression the United States lost a total of $14 billion-SJ

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John Steinbeck's net worth is $90 Million

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President Lyndon B. Johnson, a personal friend of John Steinbeck, presents the writer with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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The Great Depression Started After The Stock Market Crash Of October 192

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The Great Depression Started After The Stock Market Crash Of October 192

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In December 2019 there was an E. coli outbreak linked to the lettuce grown in Salinas where 102 people were sick

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At least 6,500 hoboes were killed in one year either in accidents or by railroad "bulls," brutal guards hired by the railroads to make sure the trains carried only paying customers. Finding food was a constant problem.

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The average family income dropped by 40% during the Great Depression.

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Organized crime became prevalent especially with prohibition, gangsters grew rich off of bootleg liquor.

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Most migrant workers were from Mexico and came to California. There, the crops grew faster so that meant they could have a better chance at getting an agricultural job

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Vanessa Hudgens, 31. was from Salinas

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He was president during Great Depression (Herbert Hoover)

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He was president during Great Depression (Herbert Hoover)

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The poverty rate in Southside Chicago is 25.94% - FK

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South Chicago is widely regarded for its high crime rate. Since there is a low median income and a high poverty rate, many residents are vulnerable to crimes. Most of which occur to people on the sidewalk.

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The racial makeup of South Chicago: 74% African American, 19% Hispanic, 5% White, 1% Two or More Races

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The 1890s in Salinas were characterized in the continuing diversification of agriculture and its attendant effect on commerce. As early as 1877, experiments in various forms of irrigation had taken place in Monterey County. By the mid 1880s, accessing a steady water supply and the ready availability of rapid transport to markets had greatly increased the production of dairy products, especially along the west side of the Salinas Valley. A major change in agriculture occurred during the decade (1920-1940s), sugar beets and beans gave way to the "green gold" of lettuce.

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For Salinas, the 1930s were far less disruptive than many parts of America's farming economy in terms of production and markets. Labor strife, as noted characterized a part of the decade in 1934 when Filipino workers organized as one of California's first farm labor unions, the Filipino Labor Supply Association and clashed with management in a major strike. And, again in 1936 when the mid-western "Dust Bowl" immigrants who settled the Alisal district of Salinas during the depression took on the Associated Farmers over wages as members of the AF of L affiliate, the Vegetable Packers Association. Elements of these actions pushed native John Steinbeck to some of his best writing in In Dubious Battle (1936) and his Pulitzer Prize winning novel Grapes of Wrath (1938).

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In response to events that happened around Salinas during the dust bowl, Steinbeck wrote Grapes of Wrath & In Dubious Battle.

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(1902-1968), born in Salinas, California, came from a family of moderate means. He worked his way through college at Stanford University but never graduated. In 1925 he went to New York, where he tried for a few years to establish himself as a free-lance writer, but he failed and returned to California. After publishing some novels and short stories, Steinbeck first became widely known with Tortilla Flat (1935), a series of humorous stories about Monterey paisanos. He Wrote a total of 48 short stories and novels.

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Between World War I and the 1920s, new employment opportunities opened in the northern industry. As concentrations of African Americans entered Chicago's South, so did an increase in racial segregation, especially during wartimes. This then created the infamous 'Black Belt', in which White neighborhoods separated and isolated African American neighborhoods.

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John Steinbeck's writing described as: "his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception" won him the Nobel prize in 1962 for Literature.

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White flight as well as an expansion of neighborhoods on the South Side. Race riots broke out and there was also an increase in the Hispanic population.

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Salinas Public Library has created its very own John Steinbeck collection along with a art display to celebrate one of its most renowned.

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Migrant workers typically earned 15-20 cents a day which when adjusted for inflation, is 2 dollars less than minimum wage (5 dollars) a day.