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Kids having to live with being sick. Constantly having to just follow their parents from place to place being evicted after 3 months. Help people around the block to get their furniture back

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Growing Up In The Great Depression (clip)

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These children suffered from malnutrition and diseases. They  had to stay alone to fight it while their parents were out working. Since their parents were trying to gain money they did not even have enough to earn money to be able to feed their children.

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Here this photo by Justin Myers is depicting how much of an impact the great depression had on these young individuals. They were left alone and scared awaiting their parents' return. The children had nothing to do and could not help so they just were left worried and sick.

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This poem is super sad because it is showing the thoughts of a child during these awful times for them. Not knowing whether or not he should go and help his family or if he should stay home so that it's one less body to feed. Seeing other kids in box cars, wanting to flee but malnourished too. Health conditions troubling him, unable to be saved by the little pieces of bread his father brought home.

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Should I stay or should I go?

Its one less mouth to feed, I know.

Adventure's out there, for me to see!

Escape the breadlines, I soon must flee!

On the boxcars, I'll escape it all.

Saw a boy try getting on, hurt himself with that fall.

Out here in the world, we ain't real safe,

But compared to home, I'd prefer being waif.

Shantytowns and hoovervilles, its truly sad to see.

The poverty, lost property; has reached brand new degrees.

These makeshift homes of scrap and such are nothing to behold,

Have to leave the train, avoid black blizzards, or so I have been told.

Good thing that I made it out, I've heard what those things spew,

Dirt, and heat, and grime; defeat, its all just so brand new.

I've seen all the Okies picking crops, they say it helps for food,

Leaving home, just all alone; to sadness they obtrude.

This freight yards near a factory, I think I'll stop on by;

Feeling sick and malnourished, I think I just might die.

I'll need to join the labor force, for all the schools have closed;

Desperation laid out bare, so many to oppose.

Got that job, ain't seen no more, of Hoover Tourists,

Maybe all the "accidents", on freight cars, I am blessed.

I only passed through this "Dust Bowl" but still the word has spread,

All the other wild boys, choked and wound up... dead.

Conditions bad, my health is worse, I fear my soul may quit

Ain't a lick of care for wildboys, and it makes me so much more sick.

Ain't gonna be no Welfare, to save me from this flu,

Lost all my money, was beaten, left black and blue.

Father found me, he left too, we're all just torn apart.

Took me home, went to the lines, but bread can't save my heart.

Relief won't come, its not enough, papa's left in tears.

This time has made me realize, my deepest, greatest, fears.

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We are the children of the Great Depression Should I stay or should I go?

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Here it is showing how sick children were. Most diagnosed with illnesses and unable to fight them. Many were just unable to beat these diseases that had attacked their bodies.

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Here is another picture of the faces of despair from these children, just being sad and not having clean clothes to rely on.

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Here this political cartoon is depicting a leader bringing these children to the park for fresh air since they did not get almost any of that during these bad times.

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This poem is describing how this boy being home alone hungry and not knowing what to do. He smells food wanting to go follow it and eat it. Thinking he is going to die because of how hungry he is.

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Here in this video the kids are either being carried or are helping around their parents. In one case one kid was sick so could not do anything or the kids were too small. They were sad and lonely.

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Suffer The Little Children : Scenes of Children in the Great Depression