A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
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A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck A look at The GREAT Depression
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A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck. A look at The GREAT Depression. Graph of Stock Market Crash. Unemployment line. Unemployed men vying for a job. A line at the soup kitchen. Blacks in line to get food & clothing. Men in line for a meal. Another breadline. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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A Long Way from Chicago
by Richard Peck
A look atThe GREAT Depression
Graph of Stock Market Crash
Unemployment line
Unemployed men vying for a job
A line at the soup kitchen
Blacks in line to get food & clothing
Men in line for a meal
Another breadline
Dust storm in Stratford, Texas
Farmer and kids during dust storm
A camp in a drought
President Herbert Hoover 1929-1933
Shanty Towns• Millions of people lost their homes during the Great
Depression.
• Those who weren’t lucky ended up in Shanty Towns – tent cities built by the poor for the poor.
• At one point Shanty Towns or Hoovervilles as they became known later were home to more than 1 million Americans.
A migrant pickers’ camp
Women & children in a camp
“Migrant Mother”
A freight car used as a house
Drifters heading west
