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"We make as much as is fitten for such as us runnin'- around folks. Cain't send the children to school we ain't got the clothes. By a 'savin up we get so's we can move on to the next place. We haven't had no help no way."

- Texas Migrant worker in California, in This Fabulous Century

This visual shows the Migrant workers on a field all working together. They seem very scrunched together and piled which explains a migrant workers life, it is never neat and they are never working alone, always with other migrant workers. This quote shows that many people in poverty make money but not enough for their family and especially not for their kids.

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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: Letter from the Forgotten Man

This picture relates to the quote because it shows the children working. The boy looks very dirty so he is working hard. The picture relates to this quote by Margot because it should the child who is doing work that is valuable in the end. Any child wants to ty to make a difference in the world and by doing this work they feel that they were.

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"I remember lying in bed one night and thinking. All at once I realized something. We were poor. Lord! It was weeks before I could get over that."

-Depression victim, 1933, in This Fabulous Century

This poem relates to the quote by the depression victim because it shows lives going on ever during the poverty but by the end of the day or quiet times, the people who are struggling during the Great Depression end up realizing that they are very poor. It shows that in this time many people might not have end realized they were poor and being poor is something different for them and they might not have ever thought they would be in that position.

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Pantoum of the Great Depression by Donald Justice

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"The [migrant] family met at the most important place, near the truck. The house was dead and the fields were dead; but this truck was the active thing, the living principle."

-from The Grapes of Wrath

This visual connects to the quote because the video speaks on migrant families and their living life while the quote explained how and where these people lived. this shows that at the time many families were in a large area of poverty when the drought happened and their fields were dead.

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Dust Bowl Migrants | The Dust Bowl | PBS LearningMedia

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Learn about the lives of the migrants who went to California because of the Dust Bowl. During the ten years of the Great Depression, California's population grew more than 20 percent. Half of the newcomers came from cities, not farms; one in six were professionals or white-collar workers.

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Life on a Farm during the Great Depression by: Joan W. Musbach

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"Please help us. My mother is sick three year and was in the hospital three month and she came out but she is not better and my Father is [paralyzed] and cannot work and we are poor… We have no one to give us a Christmas presents and if you want to buy a Christmas present please buy us a stove to do our cooking and to make good bread."

-letter to FDR from a 10-year-old girl, 1936 in Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letter from the Forgotten Man

In this article we see a child's point of view of the Great Depression as well as how they saw their life and family. The article relates to the quote because in the quote the child talks about their father and mother not being able to give them food or Christmas presents because they are poor. In the article we see a rural life during the times and what they used to live.

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Life on a Farm during the Great Depression on JSTOR

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Joan W. Musbach, Life on a Farm during the Great Depression, OAH Magazine of History, Vol. 16, No. 1, The Great Depression (Fall, 2001), pp. 33-43

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"What I would like to know is this: how can a bank take our money and get by while an old couple have to let their house go?"

-letter to FDR from a 13-year-old boy, 1934 in Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letter from the Forgotten Man

This GIF connects to the quote because we see a sad a stressed women from a propaganda poster turning into a real life photo of that same women who is in distress. In the quote it speaks on wealth inequality and shows how during this time the bank is taking the money of these families and those people having to let important parts of their life go.

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“The Negro must build on his own basis apart from the white man’s foundation if he ever hopes to be a master builder.”

--Marcus Mosiah

This article relates to the quote because we see how much the Black Americans suffered, finding homes, jobs and food. A Black American needs to do more and prove themselves higher than any other white worker, which is a lot harder due to their skin color. It shows that at this time racism never ended even after slavery was abolished.

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Last Hired, First Fired? Unemployment and Urban Black Workers During the Great Depression on JSTOR

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William A. Sundstrom, Last Hired, First Fired? Unemployment and Urban Black Workers During the Great Depression, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Jun., 1992), pp. 415-429

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"In the 1930's, to ease the strain on United States; resources, the federal government send back to Mexico tens of thousands and Mexican Americas who were on relief. Sometime whole families were herded aboard cattle cars and transported south of the border Many of these people had actually been born in the united States and were United States citizens. Many of the men had served in the armed forces during World War I. But such consideration were overlooked in carrying out the policy of deportation, Mexican Americans were encourages, even "helped," to leave the United states."

-from The Mexican American

This news article relates to the quote because many Mexican Americans were sent out of the United states very fast no matter if they were born in the US or even citizens. This shows that at the time America did not care about their mixed citizens even the people that were born in their country. They also did not care about the fact that they were working Americans.

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“Negroes – Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day – They change their mind.”

--Langston Hughes

This picture relates to the quote because we see a Black man staring at a sign that is anti-blacks. The quote states that back Americans will only listen to a certain point until they want justice. This shows that at the time black Americans had to find different jobs that were okay with having them as their skin color.

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"The forgotten man is still forgotten."

-J.W.C worker, 1935, in Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man

This picture and quote relates because it shows many men who maybe have fought in the war or were previous working Americans, having to line up for food and almost being charity work. This shows that at the time there were more unemployed men than employed that just needed there everyday food for themselves and families that they were not able to have. The forgotten man is the man who has given their all to make America what it is and then is left behind and forgotten.