1930’S USA
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
By: Shelby Gillett
1930’S Music
I’ll Be Seeing You by Billie Holiday
I'll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mine embraces
All day through.
I'll find you
In the morning sun
And when the night is new.
I'll be looking at the moon,
But I'll be seeing you.
In that small cafe;
The park across the way;
The children's carousel;
The chestnut trees;
The wishin' well.
I'll be seeing you
In every lovely summer's day;
In every thing that's light and gay.
I'll always think of you that way.
I'll be seeing you
In every lovely summer's day;
In every thing that's light and
gay.
I'll always think of you that way.
I'll find you
In the morning sun
And when the night is new.
I'll be looking at the moon,
But I'll be seeing you.
Artwork
Artist Bio
William Fisher was born
in Brooklyn, NY in 1891.
He studied at the
Brooklyn Institute of Art
and Science and at Pratt
Institute.
Fisher loved to paint
"big" canvases, usually
local Maine scenes in
later years, done in a
thickly painted, darkly
outlined modernist style
that had a distinct 1930's
style about them.
Negroville, Piermont, circa 1930's
Great Depression
Poetry
Christ in Alabama
By: Langston Hughes
Christ is a nigger,
Beaten and black:
Oh, bare your back!
Mary is His mother:
Mammy of the South,
Silence your mouth.
God is His father:
White Master above
Grant Him your love.
Most holy bastard
Of the bleeding mouth,
Nigger Christ
On the cross
Of the South.
1930 Film
Scarlett O'Hara is in love with drippy Ashley Wilkes,
and is devastated when he announces that he plans
to marry her cousin Melanie. She pleads with Ashley
to marry her instead, but then, on the first day of the
Civil War, she meets mercurial Rhett Butler. A man
to match her strength of character and romantic
desires, Butler changes the course of her life.
Despite hunger, and the burning of Atlanta, Scarlett
survives the war and its aftermath, but ultimately
loses the only man she really loved.
Awards:
Gone With the Wind won ten Academy Awards, including
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress
(Vivien Leigh), and Best Supporting Actress (Hattie
McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Oscar).
The film grossed nearly 192 million dollars.
Current Events
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