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CULTURAL ISSUES DURING
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
CHARLOTTE SHEPHERD, LINDSEY MANGIAFICO,
JUSTIN DUROCHER, VINH DAU
WOMEN’S STRUGGLES
• Depression had disruptive effect on American
family
• Men lost jobs
• Women were mostly supporters of family
• Many families went through break ups & desertions
• Marriage and birth rates dropped
• Many states refused to hire and fired women if
married
• New Deal helped men that needed new jobs but
never considered the women
AFRICAN AMERICAN’S STRUGGLES
They suffered greatly when the economy got worse
The first to lose their jobs
“Last Hired, First Fired”
50% employment rate by 1930 for Blacks
Given tough jobs no one wanted called “Negro
Occupations”
• A lot of racial discrimination
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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CITY AND
COUNTRY LIFESTYLE
Country
•Less than 13% of blacks owned
land
•Lots of racism, lynches
•2 million males in agriculture
•Sharecroppers and tenant farmers
•Whites sharecroppers were paid
more than blacks
•Education was bad
•Teachers were paid little to
nothing
City
• Much more populated from
the Great Migration
•Less racism and lynches
• more benefits
• “Job for Blacks” organizations
•Bread lines for starving people
Women began to look for jobs
for the first time
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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE 1920’S AND
THE 1930’S
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1920’s
Rapid economic
growth
Rising prosperity
Business profits boomed
National income
increased by 40%
With factory machines,
goods were able to be
made faster and for less
money
Stocks rising
1930’s
•5,000,000 Americans
are out of work by 1930
•By 1932, 14 million
Americans are
unemployed
•1,300 banks fail in 1930
•1937- Unemployment
rises to 20%
•4,000 labor strikes occur
•The Economy Act
•The New Deal
DIFFICULTIES DURING THE GREAT
DEPRESSION
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Stock market crash of 1929
Output of the economy
Wages dropped by 1/3
Most of the unemployed had little to no savings
Rise of diseases
Schools closed
Undernourishment
President Hoover
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