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Women's Experience During The Great Depression

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Women's Experience During The Great Depression

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"As long as I can work, I'll get along somehow"
-mother suffering from tuberculosis, in This Fabulous Century

This quote relates to this article by the way that there was any food for anyone left. During this time there was introduced the New Deal act and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. This was when unions began to become introduced but there was a problem, women were being treated unfairly. This article was shown what it was like from being a women, they had to constantly protest to let them work, to let them help out for their families and provide for them. Women wanted gender equality as unions would not allow women to take part of. This shows annoyance for women as they were supposed to be caring for the children, doing housework, but some women wanted to work for themselves and they needed extra money especially during these hard times. Many women were tired of the treatment they were getting striking as much as they could to get their message across. This shows that during this time period women weren't allowed many rights compared to men, specifically white men. Women were tired of how they were being treated as they were taught to be at home and be a housewife but women also wanted to provide for their families and wanted to work as well as men. They wanted equality and wanted to take action, eventually women were able to somewhat work in unions but they still fought for other women so they could be the same as them.

Women's Experience

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Children's Experience During the Great Depression

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Children's Experience During the Great Depression

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"Please help us. My mother is sick three years and was in the hospital three month and she came out but she is not better and my Father is peralised and can not work and we are poor..."
-letter to FDR, from a 10-year-old girl,1935, in Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters From the Forgotten Man

These quotes match with each other by the children cannot do anything to help their parents. As both parents couldn't get a job. One of the fathers is sick and paralyzed and the other quote, the father cannot keep a job. Seeing how they are both kids and cannot get a job because they are so young shows how the might feel blame to this. They cannot do anything but hope for a change in this. Many kids at this time were very confused on what was going on how they went from a house to living in apartments or tenants. This shows that during this time, children were scared, confused, unsure of what is going on, as their parents have to explain what is happening. All the children are just upset and want this to end as they are eating the same meals, having barley any electricity, food shortages, and their parents having no jobs, it must stress out the kids as well as they are seeing their parents are struggling for little money.

Children's Experience on The Great Depression

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Farmer's Experience During the Great Depression

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Farmer's Experience During the Great Depression

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"All that dust made some of the farmers leave; they became the Okies. We stuck it out here. We scratched, literally scratched".
Oklahoma farmer, in This fabulous Century

In this photo, there were migrant workers who are in the fields getting crops, selling them, as the land is very dry, there is barely any water for anyone, let alone crops, as the field looks half dead. The picture and the quote connect by seeing their faces, they look exhausted as some of them are standing looking impatient or bored and just tired of this lifestyle. There's a woman with her child and couples that are together working, they are all working to survive for themselves even if they don't want to do it, there isn't anything they can do. Also, their clothes are very baggy and they are wearing hats, and wearing the same kind of jackets, for the men as the women would wear bandanas and dresses.

Farmer's Experience During the Great Depression

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Near Westley, California, 1938, 1965 - Dorothea Lange - WikiArt.org

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'Near Westley, California, 1938' was created in 1965 by Dorothea Lange in Social Realism style. Find more prominent pieces of photo at Wikiart.org - best visual art database.

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Farmer's Experience During the Great Depression

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Farmer's Experience During the Great Depression

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"Yessir, we are starved stalled and stranded"
-"Okie" in This Fabulous Century

This video connects with the quote by the Farmer's life during the Great Depression. They didn't have much and were struggling with money, food, supplies, etc. They were starved and felt stranded with only farming as their only choice. As they were hungry, they still had to work as hard as they can there was no excuse for it. Many were exhausted, poor, and unhappy. This shows how during this time farmers had a big chance of losing their farms doing whatever it took so they didn't take away their farm, crops, animals, etc. There prices were so low for crops as it was less than 3 cents. They had to find other options to not give their farms up and what they worked hard for. They were going bankrupt and were worried on how they will bounce back, if they will ever go back to normal life or would it be forever? There was a lot for the farmer as it overwhelmed them during this time as they could barley feed for themselves.

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Farmers Fear Bankruptcy During the Great Depression

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Families' Experiences during The Great Depression

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Families' Experiences during The Great Depression

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"We had been eating wild greens since January this year. Violet Tops, wild onions, forget-me-nots, wild lettuce and such weeds as cow eats. Our family are in bad shape, children's need milk women needs nourishments food shoes and dresses-that we cannot get".
-Kentucky Miner, in This Fabulous Century

In this photo, the family aren't smiling at all, you can see that during this time families were pretty huge as it was at least 2-4 kids as it was the ideal back in the 1930s. The mother is holding a baby and cars behind them are very dirty and looked like they haven't been washed since water was limited. The fashion style for women and girls was dresses that were long and flowy. As for the guys it was buttoned up shirt, overalls, or suspenders with pants. They all are in clothes that is very torn and dirty. They were barley survive as water was basically dried up at this time and there was a need of change that was desperately needed. This shows that during this time period, there wasn't such thing as clean clothes or clean anything. This was their new lifestyle that everyone had to go through it was very hard for children, and parents to be living in these conditions. They had barley anything to survive as everything was dried up. They ate and drank whatever they needed to survive.

Great Depression Family Experience

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Migrant Worker's Experience During the Great Depression

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Migrant Worker's Experience During the Great Depression

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"I only wants a common living to exist without starving and freezing to death".
-anonymous letter to F.D.R., 1935

This video connects with the quote by the lifestyle that the migrants had with working, how they transported to their jobs, and how they had a hard time to survive, they needed to do anything to get themselves off the road and have shelter, clothes, foods, not freezing, etc. It also shows their landscapes, what these migrants had to work with, their clothing, how they got around during these times. They were off surviving by the different jobs they had offered to them. This shows that during these time period that Migrant workers had very limited jobs, limited things to do and tasks they had to do during these times, where they lived and struggling to survive and doing whatever it took to not be kicked out of their houses and having to take whatever transportation was offered to them because they had no choice. They have to work for themselves to feed their families.

Migrant Workers During the Great Depression

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Migrant Workers in the 1930s – Introduction

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Women's Experiences During the Great Depression

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Women's Experiences During the Great Depression

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"No work no hope; just live from one day to the next. Maybe better times are coming. Personally, I doubt it".
-small-town housewife, 1933, in Down and Out in the Great Depression; Letters from the Forgotten Man

In the movie, "Cinderella Man" we see that the wife of Jimmy named Mae was unable to work since times were different back in the 1930s. She always felt helpless as when one of her kids got sick, she sent them to live with her sister as she told Jimmy that she was worried for him. When she heard about the man that killed two people in the ring, Mae at first didn't want Jimmy to fight because she was scared that something would happen, she didn't have hope she couldn't work, and of course, she was tired of living like this she could only just wish Jimmy would be fine as he was the only source of income. It shows that in this period, women couldn't do anything, they had to marry men they didn't want to marry they just had to because that was their only way of surviving. Women couldn't work and they were all scared, they had to take care of their kids or themselves as they only had their husbands who could support them. But then again, there wasn't a guarantee that their husbands would get a job as the spots were very limited as the managers of the job would only chose a certain amount of people, if you didn't get the job then you have to keep looking.

Cinderella Man Link

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Mexican-American Experience During the Great Depression

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Mexican-American Experience During the Great Depression

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"The economic crisis and intensified class struggle of the 1930s resulted in the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers from the U.S".
-from Beyond the Border; Mexico and the U.S. today

This newspaper talks about the spotting of 1,500 Mexicans from Denver being deported to Mexico due to lack of work in Sugar Canes. This connects to the theme by the number of struggles within working, as they had no choice but to be deported. Thousands of workers were getting deported because there were no jobs left as working spots were very limited.

Mexican-American Experience During the Great Depression

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 Families' Experiences During the Great Depression

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 Families' Experiences During the Great Depression

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"Us people has got to stick together to get by these hard times".
-Large migration family, in This Fabulous Century

This quote relates with the gif by sticking together. During this time what people could understand from each other was that everyone was going through the same thing, whether rich or poor, famous or not, it applied to everyone. Most people learned to stick with each other through those tough times and having each other's companies as most people lives in tenants, small apartments connected with other people, they all had to learn to get along and relate to each other through these times. As things were going worse as barley anything was available to eat, drink, clothes were going out of stock, they could only hope that no one would steal and let others get things. This shows that during this time period, everyone needed to count on each other to understand what was going on during these times. Many were confused, upset, having to listen to the radio of upbeat happy music with a sad/dark meaning behind it relating to what everyone was going through during those times.

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African American Experiences During the 1920S/Great Depression/New Deal

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African American Experiences During the 1920S/Great Depression/New Deal

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"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots. If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. Africa for the Africans...or home and abroad".
-Marcus Garvey

This artwork and the quote connect with each other by the quote and artwork's meaning was that they wanted to have representation and people knowing their culture. During these times no one knew much about African American culture but African Americans themselves. They wanted to be equal with White Americans and show they were the same as them. They could sing, they could perform, they could attend bars the same as a White American would. This artwork was also commissioned by the government to get their word across to everyone. They wanted to be known about their culture, and about what they have been through within their struggles and their past history. Both these artworks have those connections within each other. This shows that during this time African Americans were still being treated poorly because of who they were. They couldn't change anything about it and they had enough of it. They wanted to club like the Renaissance Era, they wanted music too, they wanted their own culture, they wanted to be known of who they were and not as someone they weren't.

Great Depression Artwork