Education in the 1930's

Introduction

Employment of Women in the 1930s

Due to the 1929 stock market crash, and many other attributing factors, the United States entered into the Great Depression within the year 1929. As a result, the unemployment rate of men increased to 25%. Not only were men left to fend for themselves, but also the family…

Dust Bowl Era Music

Folk Music

Overview

During the Depression and Dust Bowl — the one-two economic and emotional punch in the U.S. during the 1930s — music served as an outlet for pain and a source of encouragement. Some songs bemoaned the situation of…

Music of the 30’s

The thirties was a time when Jazz, Blues, and Swing music were the vogue, and traveling territory bands brought music to whatever venues they could. The band Billie Jo plays with, The Black Mesa Boys, would be one example of such a band.

Canada–U.S. relations during the “dirty ’thirties”

Billie Jo’s brief interaction with the reporter from Toronto presents a small piece of a broader phenomenon: the relations between the United States and Canada during the years both countries were subjected to the economic ills of the Great…

Farmers and the Economy in the 30s

Although Roosevelt attempted to improve conditions for farmers and promoted government action for what he thought was their benefit, most farmers expressed what was at best a mixed reaction to his reforms, mostly because those same reforms made the government much more…

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

January 30, 1882 — April 12, 1945

Who Was Franklin D. Roosevelt?

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR.
• He attended Harvard University in 1900.

The Dustbowl

Ballads and Karen’s Hesse’s Out of the Dust

Out of the Dust and the Farm Security Administration

The Farm Security Administration (initially created as the Resettlement Administration) sought to combat rural poverty in the United States. Its most famous and influential act was its photography program (1935–1944). Eleven photographers…