https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v Made with knowlig en-us 2020-03-12 22:00:05 UTC 2020-03-29 01:23:04 UTC hello@padlet.com 118589 https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477409231 "I am a widow with a son fourteen years of age and am trying to support him and myself and keep him in school on a very small sum I make. I feel worthy of asking you about this: I am greatly in need of a Coat. If you have one which you have laid aside from last season I would appreciate it so much if you would send it to me"

This quote embodied the mentality that mother's had to inhibit in order to survive during the Great Depression for their children. This is shown through the increase of women in the workforce rising up to 24 percent during the 1930s as the field of “women work” consisted of teachers, nurses, and other domestic work. This was the result of male predominated industries like coal mining that were strongly impacted by the stock market crash. Although women were undeserving paid less and their positions were volatile, they took these jobs in order to provide for their families since the role of men in families were compromised. Men often became depressed as they viewed themselves as failures for not keeping up the responsibility as the breadwinner of the family. Although mother’s were heavily relied on to be the sole providers, laws were frightfully mandated to prevent women from the workforce. For example the 1932 Federal Economy Act stated that only one member of a family was allowed to work. This was a tactic to make married women dependent on men because of the societal standard of men providing and women tending to domestic duties. Thankfully, today this societal standard has improved today as the Women’s Bureau states that women comprise 47% of the workforce. The poem by the famous African American poet, Langston Hughes during the Great Depression. He was inspired to make this poem of a mother encouraging her son to persevere through hard times because of his own father who walked out and his mother and grandmother had to raise him.
Sources: 

• Underpaid, But Employed: How the Great Depression Affected Working Women
• Employment of Women in the 1930s - The Thirties

]]> 2020-03-26 21:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477409231 118589 https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477409890 "Us people have got to stick together to get by these hard times"
-large migration family

All families had to stick together and find a job in order to get through those dark times. This obstacle was a difficult hurdle during the great depression especially for African Americans as they reportedly reached a "50 percent" unemployment rate because they prioritized white people that were also in desperate need of a job. These families were "hit the hardest" as the prices of cotton were reduced to six cents per pound so most families had to migrate to Midwestern states where "large chapters" of the KKK were formed and revived during the 1930s. There were dangerous reports of Klansman who publicly beat a black physician in "Jefferson County who had treated white patients and murdered three black farm laborers Shelby County" They would also harshly reinforce segregation in order to reestablish Jim Crow Laws. Below is a child that had to go towards the "colored" section of a water fountain. 
Sources:

• The Great Depression
• Ku Klux Klan in Alabama from 1915-1930

]]> 2020-03-26 21:35:12 UTC https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477409890 118589 https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477412514 “These storms were like rolling black smoke. We had to keep the lights on all day. We went to school with headlights on and with dust masks on. "
-Texas schoolboy, in This Fabulous Century
This account was one of many dangerous obstacles children had to face during the dust bowl. In an interview with historian, Bob Burke, a Dust Bowl expert, states how school would be closed for weeks and roads were closed because mountains of sand would cover them. When babies were born they had to place wet cloths over their mouths and nose for the first few weeks to keep from dust clogging their airways.  What I was curious was of what these children did to past time. As Burke continues, he states that without: television or radio, they would often be taught mathematics and English from their parents or read the bible. The worst struggle that children faced was developing depression as children would go to "bed crying" because they would often see their parents stressed and would have nothing to occupy their time.  Below is a video of a first person experience of a child in the Great Depression and he recounts how in school dust would seep in cause the "panes didn't fit like they do today". As we can see, dust storms were sadly affecting the children and stunted their growth in the world.
Sources:
-What Was it Like Being a Kid During the Dust Bowl?
-https://youtu.be/Se9JEmbOQTo]]> 2020-03-26 21:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477412514 118589 https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477412883 "In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it"
This quote shows the battle that every African American had to face during the Great Depression because people still viewed them as volatile. With the Harlem renaissance and the resurgence of black culture, Count Basie was one of the African American jazz musicians that gained success during the Great Depression. Basie was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, in 1902 and and only had a junior high education. He dreamed of having a traveling life, inspired by seeing the carnivals that would come in and out of his town. He led his own orchestra in 1936 called the Count Basie Orchestra and even met Louis Armstrong before the age of 20. He eventually went on to win many awards such as a Grammy for Best Performance by an Orchestra during the 1960s. Below is a newspaper article announcing his performance at a beachfront. Basie was one of the musicians that helped develop a new perspective on the the stereotypes that were placed on African Americans as meek or uneducated.
Sources:
Count Basie: African American Musicians]]> 2020-03-26 21:37:41 UTC https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477412883 118589 https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477413244 "All that dust made some of the farmers leave ; they became the Okies . We stuck it out here . We scratched , literally scratched , to live . We ' d come to town to sell our cream for nine cents a pound . If we could find a town big enough and far enough away from the dust , we could sell eggs for ten cents a dozen ...made five crop failures in five years"
-Oklahoma Farmer

As the quote suggests, many farmers were pushed to move out of their small towns and into cities as grasshoppers and the dust bowl prevented for them to make any profit. Hundreds were driven out of Nebraska however the majority "toughed it out" because people were rooted to stay in the state that they grew up with. The art below by Alexander Hague called "Drouth Survivors" highlights on the animals that were affected by the dust bowl. He wanted to draw sympathy towards the hundredths of deaths of innocent cattle. Problems stemmed from the cycle of debt that Farmers faced because of the fluctuated prices for crops. The New Deal aimed to help farmers raise money by making resources artificially scarce. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration was created and encourage farmers to produce less and throw away any abundant crops. The farmers followed the AAA as they gave them steady income to which they sought after their desperation during the after the dust bowl and the economic crisis.
Sources: 

• Farm Life during the Great Depression
• The Farming Problem [ushistory.org]

]]> 2020-03-26 21:38:02 UTC https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477413244 118589 https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477413515 "The economic crisis and intensified class struggle of the 1930s resulted in the deportation of Hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers from the US . As unemployment in the southwest soared--worsened by the migration of over a million people into California from other parts of the United States between 1930 and 1910 - as urban Mexican communities in such cities as Los Angeles began to rebel against their oppression and farm labor strikes flared up throughout California... More than 75 000 Mexican were deported from Los Angeles alone in 1931 ."
- From the Beyond the Border

Although this quote was from the 1930s, we are scarily finding the same pattern today. In the 1930s-40s, "2 million Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were deported or expelled " from the U.S. and was deported to Mexico which betrayed their natural rights. The Mexican Repatriation. This was because of the argument that many Americans had that they were "stealing" their jobs when jobs were scarce for everyone.In the mind of the American government and President Hoover, Mexicans are Mexicans and that “American jobs for real Americans”. One account was Esteban Torres who was a toddler at the time. is father was  a Mexican immigrant that was caught at a mine that he worked at and was never seen back to his family. Below the picture shows Mexican's being deported back to Mexico.In today's politics the government is empowered by people that focus time on building a wall and making mexico to pay for that wall against Mexico. I hope none of the unjust mistakes won't repeat again.
Sources: Mass Deportation May Sound Unlikely, But It's Happened Before]]> 2020-03-26 21:38:13 UTC https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477413515 118589 https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477438508 "When they need us they call us migrants. When we've picked their crops we're bums and we've got to get out"
As work was scarce migrants and people in general found it extremely difficult to find jobs. When Henry Ford created the assembly line, he made finding employment easier for unskilled workers and they could be taught within a few days. By 1914, more than "90 percent of the workers" were immigrants in the Ford plant. This cost effective and cheap method thrived during the Great Depression as people needed cheaper cars. Currently, we use the assembly line process for the majority of the products produced in America. The assembly line process being popularized helped to create products for cheaper during the 1930s and it helped grow our economy today.
Sources: Employment

]]> 2020-03-26 22:01:49 UTC https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477438508 118589 https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477438611 Monopoly is one of the most popular games that sprung from the Great Depression. Originally a game by Elizabeth J. Magie, her goal was to spread the evils of capitalism. It wasn't until the Parker Brothers that re-branded it that it made commercial success. The game provided not only a cheap way of entertainment but also was a "psychological elixir" as it would  help people be distracted by the economic downturns that people were facing. This game offered a  "release from the tensions of everyday life." as the article states below.]]> 2020-03-26 22:01:54 UTC https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477438611 118589 https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477438697 Hollywood thrived as people wanted movies as a form of escapism. This was a time that Charlie Chaplin thrived as his goofy antics would spring joy into people's lives. The poster below shows Chaplin's 1931 The City Nights. Other celebrities like the Marx Brothers had success and ultimately created the two famous films "A Night at the Opera" and "A Day at the Races" The comedic group found astonishing success and fame and fit the time's "zany, archaic humor". The importance of Hollywood films increased as more people demanded films. This was the start to the societal status we place celebrities to today.
Sources:
-How Movies Got Us Through the Great Depression
-9 Things You May Not Know About Charlie Chaplin]]> 2020-03-26 22:01:58 UTC https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477438697 118589 https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477442273 In the cartoon below, it shows an early rendition of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse as Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. In 1933, an animation was created for the show and this episode was called Confidence, which helped spread President Roosevelt's attitude for people to gain confidence in order to get through the Depression. The can-do spirit that the FDR's New Deal encouraged these types of animations in order to push Americans to get up and work. In this animation Oswald injects confidence into depressed characters which perfectly shows the governmental dose of mentality that the government pushes onto people.
Sources:Confidence: The Cartoon That Helped America Get Through the Great Depression (1933)]]> 2020-03-26 22:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/118589/k79bxui2i40v/wish/477442273