The Voices of The Great Depression by Melissa Feilmeier-Marzen

Interview with Peggy Terry

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 14:31:17 UTC

A migrant farm worker, on being unemployed, bread lines, soup kitchens, and homeless camps.

Interview with Tom Yoder

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 14:32:31 UTC

The son of a suburban housewife, on food shortages and the shame in poverty.

Interview with Slim Collier

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 14:34:36 UTC

A bartender, on Iowa during the Depression up through WWII.

Interview with Dorothy Bernstein

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 14:35:28 UTC

A waitress, on the shame in welfare.

Interview with Larry van Dusen

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 14:36:44 UTC

A retired labor organizer, on the shame and depression in poverty and the rootlessness of his generation.

Interview with Joe Morrison

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 14:38:30 UTC

A retired miner and labor organizer, who describes how depression hit miners earlier and lasted longer.

Interview with Evelyn Finn

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 14:39:55 UTC

A seamstress and labor organizer, who organized garment workers in New Orleans and St. Louis.

Interview with Harry Terrell

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 14:41:22 UTC

A farmer, on farm depression in Des Moines IA, farm holidays, and repossession.

Interview with Oscar Heleen

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 14:42:27 UTC

A farmer, on farm depression, farm holidays and repossesion.

Interview with Frank and Rome Hentges

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 14:43:42 UTC

Retired clothing merchants, on stores closings in Le Mars, IA.

Interview with Orin Kelley

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 14:45:05 UTC

A cooperative worker, who demonstrated at farm auctions in Le Mars, IA.

Interview with Mary Owsley

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 14:46:34 UTC

A farm worker who cleaned up after the dust storms in Oklahoma.

Interview with John Beecher

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 14:48:03 UTC

A New Deal worker, on migrant worker camps

Interview with Harry Hartman

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 14:49:48 UTC

A salesman, on poverty, repossession, and conditional sales contracts.

Interview with Judge Sam Heller

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 14:55:35 UTC

Presided over the landlords & tenants court and evicted people.

Interview with Anna Ramsey

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 14:57:38 UTC

On shame, mortgage loans, and credit.

Interview with Elsa Ponselle

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 14:58:52 UTC

On shame and the lack of jobs.

Interview with Ben Isaacs and Ward James

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 15:00:12 UTC

On shame in taking relief and prying case workers.

Interview with Eileen Barthe

melissamarzen — 2023-10-30 15:01:38 UTC

A relief case worker, on the humiliation to the recipients of relief.