WebViolence in the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike. May 5 – The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released. May 9 – 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: A general strike is engaged in San Francisco. May 11 – Dust Bowl: A strong 2-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl.

WebIn the summer of 1934, with conditions exacerbated by a long drought, winds began to whip the sunbaked soil into thick, dark, low-riding clouds of dust. In April, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico were all hit with a devastating dust storm. The dust clouds assaulted everything, destroying crops, killing livestock, and ...

WebIn 1934, Americans grappled with an economic situation that feels all too familiar today. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration created the Public Works of Art Project—the first federal government program to support the arts nationally. Federal officials in the 1930s understood how essential art …

WebOct 16, 2016 · 2nd August » Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes 'Führer' of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg. 11th August » The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island. 19th August » The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio. 19th August » The creation of the …

WebThe 1930s (pronounced "nineteen-thirties" and commonly abbreviated as "the 30s" or "the Thirties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1930, and ended on December 31, 1939. In the United States, the Dust Bowl led to the nickname the "Dirty Thirties".. The decade was defined by a global economic and political crisis that culminated in the Second World War.

WebMar 27, 2020 · Life for migrant workers in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, was an existence exposed to constant hardships. Such difficulties included homelessness, dispossession, serial unemployment, discrimination, violence and even persecution. There was frequently endless competition for underpaid work in regions foreign to them and …

WebThe photographs in the Caroline Webb Papers document an African American family living in the Midwest from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. Webb (1883-1975) was the daughter of enslaved people living in Missouri who moved their family north after the Civil War. Their photograph albums reveal three generations engaged, as Caroline Webb's ...

WebMar 30, 2020 · Poverty colored the experience of growing up in the southern United States during the 1930s, as did poor education and hard work. Many children couldn’t afford clothes, and those that could only had a couple changes of clothes at best. The education system was also poorly funded. Lack of funding caused many southern schools to close …

WebFar from being the lone voice for a new social order, Harold Rugg was one many educators throughout the United States who believed that education should offer more to the American way of life than graduating students with some form of common knowledge, but with little ability to effect necessary change. And in 1934, few Americans would disagree …

WebJan 29, 2020 · The social impact of the Great Depression on American women. The Women's Policy Union of New York State heading to New Jersey on a rented Tugboat to encourage voting rights in 1914. In the 1930s, women’s equality was not as flashy an issue as in some previous and subsequent eras. The decade did, however, bring slow and …

WebMar 13, 2012 · W.E.B Du Bois, a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) through most of his life was a staunch integrationist. In 1934 however he advanced the argument that since integration would not happen in the nation any time soon, … Read More(1934) W.E.B. Du Bois, “A Negro …

WebAug 08, 2014 · A particular incident of this deeply seeded racism is in the 1930's. These roots of discrimination that were founded with the arrival of the English flourished in the 1930's, with many horrendous actions being committed and praised for their ferocity. By Will Pile, John Bertucci and Isaac Travers-Hucker. The Ku Klux Klan is one of the most ...