1. Hard Times: The Great Depression

3. Charlie Chaplin in City Lights (1931)

4. "Destitute Pea Pickers in California
"Destitute Pea Pickers in California." Nipomo, California, February Photograph by Dorothea Lange.

5. "Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work
"Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work..." Dorothea Lange.

6. Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm
Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma, April Photograph by Arthur Rothstein.

8. “Toward Los Angeles, California”
Dorothea Lange (1937)

9. Russell Lee, “The Faro Caudill family eating dinner in their dugout” Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940

10. Russell Lee, “Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family”, Pie Town, NM, October 1940

11. Russell Lee, “Garden adjacent to the dugout home of Jack Whinery, homesteader”
Pie Town, NM, September1940

12. Causes of the Great Depression
Structural weaknesses of the banking system?
Unequal distribution of wealth?
Changing nature of economy?
Fiscal orthodoxy?
Economic nationalism?
Fall in money supply?

13. “We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.” Herbert Hoover(1928)

15. Bonus Army March (1932)

16. Hoovervilles
Squatters’ shacks along the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon.
Arthur Rothstein (1936)

17. 1928 Presidential Election

19. 1932 Presidential Election

21. FDR’s First Inaugural Address, 1933

22. The New Dealers Henry Wallace Harold Ickes Francis Perkins
Harry Hopkins
Raymond Moley
Rexford Tugwell
William Woodin
Lewis Douglas

23. Eleanor Roosevelt

24. The New Deal Coalition Southern Whites African Americans
Organised Labour
Midwestern farmers