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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: The Great Depression

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

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Economic Panic


  

The era which began soon after the Stock Market crash of 1929, the Great Depression, was one of the worst economic downturns in United States history.  Read all about it!

Click on the graphic above for video explaining how the Stock Market Crash led to the Great Depression and President Franklin Roosevelt's steps to halt the run on the banks.

Great Depression

Great Depression websites

I Aint' Got No Home Anymore

Woodie Guthrie was a folk singer / songwriter whose lyrics reflected the lives of every day Americans during the Great Depression.

Stories about The Great Depression

This video takes a short bit of time to load. It includes the oral history of people who lived through The Great Depression.

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Non-Fiction

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