John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck is the author of a famous book called 'Grapes of Wrath', this was established around September 1939. This book won a lot of people attention and a Nobel prize. In this book Steinbeck talked abut the Grate Depression, poor people from sharecroppers, the hardship that people was going through, a Oklahoma family going through a lot and changes in financial industries.

Woody Guthrie

June 1938, Woody Guthrie a very famous American singer-song write and folk musician from Oklahoma. Woody Guthrie traveled all the way to California. During his travel he would sing about his life experience, like the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. That's when he gained his nick name 'Dust Bowl Troubadour'. With his music people listen and cry because of how deep it may get. Guthrie most famous song is 'This land is your land', which is sung in American classrooms nowadays.

Father Charles Coughlin and Huey Long.

Around 1937, a Roman Catholic Priest name, Father Charles Coughlin and a senate from Louisiana name Huey Long, were two loud critics who opposed Roosevelt and his 'New Deal'. Coughlin and Long, used radio and the media to vent their anger at Roosevelt encouraging others to be on their side and oppose Roosevelt. Both of these men, thought the New Deal, didn't help out at all instead it ruined a lot of their big businesses and going to far with the plan. These man thought they could balance America better with a plan that would work and transform this chaotic commotion. Long and Coughlin think alike, act alike and even had similar beliefs, and tactics.

Alf Landon

Around November 1936, a brave man named Alfred Landon ran for president against Franklin Roosevelt. Landon held the biggest record for landslide loss of presidency until 1964. Although he loss, he took it and turned it into humor. With his courage to run against FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt) even his loss still made him a well known for valiant. After his loss against FDR, he didn't run again but still maintain a position in the office in the Republican Party. Landon died when he turned 100. His house became very popular in Independence, Kansas which became a museum. 'Alf Landon have chased many dreams and caught most of them.' - Mr. Reagan

Dorothea Lange ;

Dorothea Lange, was a very famous photographer. She capture every moment that was priceless and pictures that couldn't be forgotten. Lange took chances to make this place a better place during the Great Depression. Works Projects Administration gave her chance to express herself within. This program provided money to build schools, roads, bridges, and other public places. This helped out a lot of places that were in needs for education and public places.

President Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the best President in my opinion, he helped a lot during this depression. Eleanor Roosevelt which is his long distance cousin, but than became his WIFE. Eleanor was Franklin ears and eyes, since he couldn't travel so much because he had polio. Even though this man had polio he still manage to catch others attention and respect him. The people felt as if, Roosevelt knew what it felt like to be one of them. That's why on my case, I really like Roosevelt, he doesn't just give up when times got hard. On March 1, 1933, Roosevelt came up with 'The New Deal' so that everyone could get back to work, and stop stressing over a job and restarting the economy to a better place. This program was made for the government to pay off, but than the people would still paid it off with their taxes. The wealthy hated Roosevelt, because he demanded them to pay the New Deal... and as we could tell all of this didn't work, the government ran into debt, for not paying back and once again it went down hills.

Hoovers Response.

Fall of October 1932. Hoover had all these plans written down, and he did it all but NONE of it ever worked out. So these were the plans.
Trickle down economics -- Federal government loans money to the bank, loan money to businesses, businesses expand to hire people, people earning money to start spending again, and people spend money on the banks. But this all fail, as banks held onto the money and did not loan it out. As if the Emergency Relief Act was for, federal government loaning small businesses and state government. Businesses fail to accept much because they wouldn't have enough money to pay back. So with all this commotion, I came to the conclusion that, I would never ever settle and put my money within the hands of someone else.

When Bad Meets Worst- Hoover.

Herbert Hoover was our President at that time. Personally I disliked him a whole lot. When the worst would come, his thoughts of 'helping' would fly out the window, which frustrates me very much. All his ideas would never work, and people were not expecting anything from him anymore. Everyone literally gave up on him, he had lost respect to many. July 1932, Veterans were rage, they went out and set up 'Hooverville camps' around the white house, because they were being promise to be given money after WW1. Congress were refusing to grant them the money they wanted. President Hoover forced the veterans to leave and for sake, they lost total respect.

Hobo's On the Run.

Summer breeze of, Aug 1931. Thousands and thousands of people were leaving their hometown to find a job, that's how desperate everyone was becoming. People started leaving because of the Dust Bowl too. Killing their farmlands and plants, and others were getting real ill because of that. Therefore I felt I needed to do the same.. but I couldn't leave my mother out here and my younger siblings alone. I had a tough decision too make at that point, but if I stayed nothing would ever change, it felt like a do or die moment. I didn't know much about leaving and becoming a hobo, all I eve knew was jumping from train to train, town to town and hitch hike. Sounded scary since I was gonna be with people I don't know, but to be able to give my mom and my siblings a better life, I had to man up. Other people from the plains were consider Okies. They're were somewhat apart of the hobo's too. Hobo's were always getting into trouble because they didn't belong anywhere near the trains, they would fight for food and steal too. So that would mean I would have to act like a guy, and look like one, so no one would under estimate me.. Maybe its time to go bald, and leave everything behind to give my mother the life she never had.

Americans Face Hard Times;

Unemployment was extremely high! It rise to 25% nation wide. Part time jobs were hard too find too, only 25% would find it.  On March 17, 1931, My two brothers and I was standing in line, waiting for food... which was only bread and soup. The line was super long and the wait took forever and a day, it stretched for many many blocks; which was a big pain. This was the first time I ever stood in this kind of line. Everyone in town had no income and especially no money for food. So the breadlines and soup lines turned into a charity for everyone. Millions lost their homes because of all this commotion, so they were homeless. Hoovervilles was a homeless camp, and I, unfortunately had to witness and lived in that cruel, filthy place. Hoovervilles is named after President Hoover, whom my mother passionately hated. Hoover was an awful President, he lost control of everything in that time. Hoovervilles was all nation wide and most common in California. Foreclosure went big, businesses were going down the drain..

Black Tuesday!

On October 29, 1929 was my 17th birthday, the worst birthDAY of my entire life. Stock Market Crash big time that day. I could still remember all the people running back and fourth, trying to get their money out the bank, and prepare a saving. I thought the world was ending that day, because of all the commotion. From what I recalled 16 billion shares were being sold and the stock market collapsed all the way down to the ground. Investors panicked because their business was about to go down hills. Countless of dollars were lost within a few hours. So I ran to the bank, & grabbed all money that we had left, which was $19.75. This was all we had left... And I knew, everything was about to change, big time.

Depression Hits Us Rock Bottom

It's November 22, 1929. Not very long ago depression hit among us all. I'm the oldest one out of 10  children. I have 3 sisters which are triplets and 6 brothers. My mother whom is very ill and can not take care of us, lays in bed all day, while I'm out working or stealing food from others. My father had left us when I was 8. I am 17 right now, I actually just turned 17, right on the day where everything went wrong; October 29 is my birthday. Which was my favorite day of all time, but this year.. Its now the worst and memorable day of my life. So when 'Black Tuesday' hit, I had no clue what was going on. There was flyers everywhere saying something about the word 'Depression.' I had to ask my neighbors what was going on, and they gave me this much information here. Overproduction, Too much credit were being use, Uneven Distribution of Wealth, Stock Market were being shut down and Depression time is right in my face.