Great depression alabama

Courtesy of Library of Congress. These rare photos take us into the lives of those who lived in Alabama during the Great Depression. Many of the farmers packed up and headed for the cities.

But there were few jobs there, at least until war production . Source: Western Union TelegraElba Lions Club, Gov.

After World War I, America and Alabama experienced an economic boom.

Large segments of the Alabama economy enjoyed the same boom, the war needs of the country having stimulated manufacturing in the state.

A relatively diversified industrial sector featuring textile mills, coal mines, iron and steel . The slide presentation will look at the Great Depression and how it affected Alabama and Alabamians. Another era: The post office in Sprott, Alabama , where you can also buy gas and drink Coca-Cola. Family in Mobile during the Great Depression. Erik Overbey Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library. In particular, the depression had already sprouted on the American farm and in certain industries.

The Hoover term was just months old when the nation sustained the most . University of Alabama football team, the first southern team to be honored with an invitation to the Rose Bowl, defeats the University of Washington ( January 1). Convict lease system ended in Alabama. The Great Depression changed the lives of people who lived and farmed on the Great Plains and in turn, changed America. Weather touched every part of life in the Dirty 30s: dust, insects, summer heat and . Many thousands of tenant farmers lost their credit when the price of cotton fell to its lowest point.

Federal relief programs alleviated some problems, and the Tennessee Valley . The problems of the Great Depression affected virtually every group of Americans . No group was harder hit than African Americans, however. In some Northern cities, whites called for blacks to be fired from any jobs as long as there were whites out of work. By the time of the Great Depression , tenant farming reached its peak in Alabama , encompassing well over percent of all farmers, with sharecroppers making up percent of this number. Roosevelt and the implementation of his New Deal programs, tenant farmers . The Works Progress Administration (WPA), the principal relief agency of the second New Deal, was an attempt to provide work rather than welfare during the Great Depression. Under the WPA, buildings, roads, airports and schools were constructed.

Actors, painters, musicians and writers were employed through the . But with the aid of the Communist Party, a militant movement of sharecroppers emerged to challenge this system. The idea was to help keep farmers employed during the Great Depression.