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Museum. By Amber Martinez . ”I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. Never had to lose everything I had in life .” Ma Joad. Housing .
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Museum By Amber Martinez
”I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. Never had to lose everything I had in life.” Ma Joad Housing home prices have already fallen further during this economic downturn (26 percent) than they did during the Great Depression (25.9 percent). Migrant packinghouse workers' camp in swamp cane clearing. Housing two families (twelve people) from Tennessee. No lights, no water, no privy. Wash water is hauled from dirty canal, drinking water is hauled from packing house. Belle Glade Florida. Many families lost all of their money in the stock market and were left homeless, so they moved into parks, under bridges and into the woods where they formed little communities.
Clothing Charity organizations helped to collect clothing for the poor during the Great Depression. The Minneapolis Council of Social Agencies staged a clothing drive in May of 1932. Washing her family clothing We have never lived like hogs before but we sure does now, it's no different from hog living." Canal Point, Florida.
"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." Working In 1937 women working for the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration in a Tampa, Florida, sewing room conducted an unusual strike. Elena C. Green investigates their sit-down strike, which tried to publicize the precarious status of many women on work relief. This has been among the slowest labor market recoveries since the Great Depression of the 1930's Bean picking at Courtenay
