posted by anna on Jul 6
I started learning about the great depression. The most recent book I read was The children of the Depression, it had lots of stories and pictures about the poor children in the 1930’s.
The depression started when the stock market collapsed in 1929, the richest people were pulled down to to the poorest community’s, and the poor were always near to starvation. The worst off place was the areas in and around Alabama where the soil tuned to dust making it impossible to grow anything, so thousand of family’s were not making any money and by 1939 40,000 family’s had pack what belongings were left in to their old truck and moved to Californa.
