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Treatment of people with Disabilities in the 1930s

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Treatment of people with Disabilities in the 1930s

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The role of women in the 1930s was primarily to become the glue that holds the family together through economic strife, according to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Though men were still primarily the bread winners, women were tasked with feeding and caring for the family on increasingly tiny budgets.

In the face of the Depression, women took on the role of keeping their home running on very little money. When men lost their jobs and found themselves without their identity, they floundered and wandered, not knowing what to do. Women remained at work even when men lost their jobs. They had to attempt to make what little income they might have stretch to points that were unheard of. They never lost their jobs in the home but instead took on more responsibility in helping their family to maintain their health and keep them together through the difficult times that they faced. During the years of 1935 and 1936, the average median income for a family in the United States was $1,160, according to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. This meant that a housewife had approximately $20 a week to pay for all essentials including the food for their family and their shelter.

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What Was the Role of Women in the 1930s?

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The role of women in the 1930s was primarily to become the glue that holds the family together through economic strife, according to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Though men were still primarily the bread winners, women were tasked with feeding and caring for the family on increasingly tiny budgets.

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the great depression of the 1930s worsened the already bleak economic for African Americans   In early public assistance programs African american often received substantially less aid than whites, and some charitable organizations

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The new deal was a series of programs and project instituted during the great depression 

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The new deal was a series of programs and project instituted during the great depression 

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https://www.leapinfo.org/advocacy/history-of-disability-rights/1930s

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Biography: John Steinbeck: Am American Writer

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1. The Great Depression did not happen overnight
2.The media created panic and chaos with their sensationalized reports
3.being poor was so common that being poor was normal
4.Hard work and an enterprising attitude made a bad situation tolerable
5.The Great Depression started in the 1930s

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https://sites.google.com/site/changesintheviewsofdisability/treatment-of-disabled-people-throughout-history

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https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/great-depression/

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John Steinbeck - Nobel Prize Author | Mini Bio | BIO

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https://www.britannica.com/event/New-Deal

https://livingnewdeal.org/what-was-the-new-deal/

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If you enjoy these Steinbeck facts, check out our bumper collection of famous author facts.

1. An early draft of John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men was eaten by his dog. It was Max, one of several dogs Steinbeck owned during his life, who devoured the novel's draft and so became, in effect, the book's first critic. This is probably Steinbeck's most famous novel, and draws on his own experiences as a 'bindlestiff' (or migratory worker) in the US in the 1920s. The novel's title famously comes from the Robert Burns poem 'To a Mouse': 'The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley' (or 'go often awry'). The original title of the novella was 'Something That Happened'. (We have more interesting facts about Of Mice and Men here.)

2. In the 1980s, a rumour arose that Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath had been translated into Japanese as 'The Angry Raisins'. This rumour was, however, false. It is a good example of how people love a good 'lost in translation' story, and it has been debunked numerous times.

3. Steinbeck used 300 pencils to write East of Eden. He was known to use up to 60 pencils in a day, preferring the pencil to a typewriter or pen. Hemingway was also a fan of graphite rather than ink, though 'Papa' apparently also enjoyed sharpening pencils while he was working on a novel, to help him think! (We have more great facts about Hemingway here.)

4. Steinbeck wrote a book about King Arthur. It's an unlikely topic for the author of Depression-era novels, but Steinbeck's sortie into Arthurian fantasy was penned late in his career. Like T. H. White (who wrote the sequence The Once and Future King, beginning with The Sword in the Stone) and Tennyson (who wrote a long verse-novel, Idylls of the King, in the nineteenth century), Steinbeck drew on Sir Thomas Malory's vast fifteenth-century prose epic, Le Morte d'Arthur, for his source material. Steinbeck's Arthurian fantasy was The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights. Begun in 1956, the book was left unfinished upon Steinbeck's death in 1968, and was not published until 1976.

5. He wrote one of the finest love letters in all of literature - a letter about falling in love. In this letter of 1958, Steinbeck responds to a letter his son Thom had written to him. Thom had told his father that he had fallen desperately in love with a girl named Susan (at this time, Thom was away at boarding school). Steinbeck's tone is supportive and honest throughout, taking his son's feelings into account but also offering advice on 'what to do about it' - surely what every teenager in the first pangs of a love affair wants to know. 'The object of love is the best and most beautiful,' he tells Thom. 'Try to live up to it.' He ends the letter by assuring his son, 'And don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.' You can read the letter in full here.

If you enjoyed this post, check out our compilation of interesting Mark Twain facts. You might also enjoy our facts about William Burroughs, J. D. Salinger, and Harper Lee.
Image: John Steinbeck's poem plaque near the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco Chinatown's Jack Kerouac Alley; author: Goodshoped35110s; public domain.

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Five Fascinating Facts about John Steinbeck

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If you enjoy these Steinbeck facts, check out our bumper collection of famous author facts. 1. An early draft of John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men was eaten by his dog. It was Max, one of several dogs Steinbeck owned during his life, who devoured the novel's draft and so became, in effect, the book's...

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The New Deal: Crash Course US History #34

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvcWeNf9g6A

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