-Marcus Mosiah

As African Americans entered the 1920s they experienced a lot of hardships such as they are still dealing with segregation and racism in the 1920s from white people. What African Americans do is that they created their own community such as creating commercial networks and businesses.

I am a boy of 12 years… My father hasn’t worked for 5 months. He went plenty of times to relief, he filled out application. They won’t give us anything. I don’t know why… My father he staying home. All the time he’s crying because he can’t find work. I told him why are you crying daddy, and daddy said why shouldn’t I cry when there is nothing in the house. I feel sorry for him. That night I couldn’t sleep.

-letter to President and Mrs. Roosevelt, 1936 in Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letter from the Forgotten Man

During the Great Depression a lot of people did not have money to afford food and could not get employed for a job. Based off the quote a lots of mothers and father did not get jobs. To add on in the article a man experienced losing his house in the Great Depression where he lost his house and said . "Unfortunately, we lost the house. I can remember to this day — and I become emotional when I think of it — literally being placed on the sidewalk [with] every last possession that my poor mother had because she wasn't able to supposedly pay the mortgage. And an incredible number of people came to my mothers' aid, literally wheeling wheelbarrows of coal to help warm the house."

Not just one person is affected by the great Depression it affected a lot of people in every states. It shaped the world and how the economy is to this day.

-unemployed worker, in This Fabulous Century

When the Great Depression hit in the 1930's a lot of families could not afford anything. A lot of families lost their homes and kids had no where else to go. Buying anything in general in the Great Depression was hard. A lot of families resorted to foods that were low quality and unhealthy for the long run. A lot of families worked day and night or the opposite instead of working they searched for jobs due to high demand and a lot of companies losing money which caused havoc and chaos.

-Margot Hentoff in Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letter from the Forgotten Man

Children during the Great Depression worked inside and outside of the house. Mainly things they did was try to get as much money from anyone such as cleaning things in a house and shining shoes. Boys mostly shined shoes and hustled papers but girls babysat and cleaned. Due to how much jobs have affected children school was a big problem. A lot of kids did not do school due to them working long hours of finding ways to earn money to support their family.

I have worked hard all my life, and all I have now is my  broken body.

-California field hand, in The Fabulous Century

People who migrated to U.S had a rough start from the Great Depression. Everything was hard for migrant workers. They were paid really poor such as them getting paid with fruit or cotton. Sometimes they would get paid $0.75-$1.25 a day. Everything they had to do was rough.

"Long as I can work, I’ll get along somehow."

- Mother suffering from tuberculosis, in This Fabulous Century

A lot of Women worked hard during the Great Depression. Just for a low pay women tried anyway to earn more such as protesting. Even if women were sick they still went to work because money was a important thing to keep them financially stable for their family. They worked all day and when they get home they have to clean and make food which is a lot of work.

- Texas farmer, in This Fabulous Century 

April 14 1935 Farmers in Oklahoma were hit with a massive dust bowl where almost all their crops were destroyed. None of them were recoverable or can be fixed. This was during the Great Depression and it was a catastrophe for a lot of families that owned farms because they could not sell their crops nor use it to eat. Which put the in a state of spending more money or going hungry.

-from The Grapes of Wrath

Wheat was expensive due to Dust Bowls in Oklahoma. It affected the economy for food and people homes were destroyed from dust bowls. A lot of families struggled during these times which was the hardest drought of Oklahoma. Not just farms it was other parts of the city and small towns in the state of Oklahoma. People did not have jobs due to this and could not get money.

Their hunger was in their eyes, and their need was in their eyes. 

-from The Grapes of Wrath

By the end of 1932 the Great Depression affected at least 60 million people. In Large cities they setup bread lines and food supplies to people in need but they were limited. Families needed food badly it got to a point that they needed to take money out of their savings. While the rich did not really suffer during the Great Depression, The middle class and lower class suffered a lot. A lot of women would sacrifice their food for their children just for them to survive and be healthy for the long term.

-One of the down and out, in Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man 

Not a lot of Mexicans made it to the U.S. They had to go through a long process such as going through labor camps. They had to have good behavior and a lot of them would revolt or do attacks on Americans. But as the Great Depression hit it was harder to maintain them during a lot of people struggling .What Mexicans workers do when they entered the U.S was find work and jobs. They were established with the work force and worked for industries of southwest. What they did was ranching and mining.