Great Depression and Dust Bowl Between the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, families had no other course but to leave the prairie lands and immigrant to the western states to become migrant workers. Below are vivid photographs documenting the difficulties they encountered on the road and interviews by the WPA with four men, Wayne […]
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Haunting [photographs] reveal the lives of largest migration in American history
APPIP ERROR: amazonproducts[ TooManyRequests|The request was denied due to request throttling. Please verify the number of requests made per second to the Amazon Product Advertising API. ] The exodus from dried up farms due to the Dust Bowl was the largest migration in American history within a short period of time. Farmers affected by the […]
FDR pushed the button to open the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge in 1936
On November 12, 1936 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President of the United States. You can see a timeline of his fairly uneventful day at: FDR Library However, one major event in President Roosevelt’s schedule shows that at 3:30 pm. “In Cabinet Room, pressed button to open San Francisco-Oakland Bridge (CA).” Photographer Dorothea Lang was in […]