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Social Impact of the Depression: Changing Roles, Struggles, and Escapes

Explore the social impact of the Great Depression on American society, including changes in gender roles, civil rights struggles, and the rise of entertainment as an escape from reality. Discover how the Depression affected minorities and gave birth to iconic novels and movies.

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Social Impact of the Depression: Changing Roles, Struggles, and Escapes

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  1. “Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.” ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Social Impact of the Depression

  2. Birth rate and divorces went down during the Depression. • couldn’t afford either. • More strict child labor laws • protect jobs for adults supporting families. • High School enrollment increased • kids couldn’t get jobs as easily. U.S. Society during depression

  3. Jobs for women more common than factory work • Gender roles reverse in the home • Civil Rights struggled during the Depression. • Lynching became more popular in the South during the Depression. Minorities during the depression

  4. Many authors focused on realistic subjects. • John Steinbeck: • Grapes of Wrath: Oklahoma farmers in the Dust Bowl during the depression. • Of Mice and Men: two migrant farmhands trying to find work during the depression, lost American dream. Novels During the Great Depression “and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  5. Margaret Mitchell: wrote Gone with the Wind. • rebuilding life in the South after the Civil War. • Scarlet O’Hara symbol of Americans during the depression.

  6. Talkies: the first full length films with sound became popular during the depression. • Idolized celebrities to cope with real life • Mae West, Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, Ginger Rogers, and Fred Astaire • fairy tales & song and dance routines popular • people want escape from reality. • The first soap operas over the radio Entertainment

  7. Mae West

  8. Clark Gable – Gone with the Wind (1939)

  9. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

  10. The first full length animated movie by Disney. Snow white and the seven dwarfs

  11. Bank robbers became famous • Most Americans blamed banks after Black Tuesday • 18 month crime spree from Texas to Michigan • John Dillinger, “Baby Face Nelson”, Bonnie and Clyde • Increased importance of FBI (interstate jurisdiction) Crime of the Depression

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