Alabama great depression

Roosevelt, the Democrat- controlled Congress, and other federal and state leaders in response to the Great Depression. In Alabama , the New Deal consisted of numerous . Courtesy of Library of Congress. Family in Mobile during the Great Depression.

Erik Overbey Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Many of the farmers packed up and headed for the cities.

But there were few jobs there, at least until war production .

These rare photos take us into the lives of those who lived in Alabama during the Great Depression. The slide presentation will look at the Great Depression and how it affected Alabama and Alabamians. Photographer: Arthur Rothstein. The drought that helped cripple agriculture in the Great Depression was the worst in the climatological . 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 . 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. Another era: The post office in Sprott, Alabama , where you can also buy gas and drink Coca-Cola. Morrison series in Southern studies).

Includes bibliographical references. Communism- Alabama -History-20th century. 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 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 . 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 .