1. Cultural Issues
In the 1930’s

2. Struggles Women Faced Hard time finding jobs Roles in the household
Tried for real jobs got scorned and judged
Wanted all jobs go to white men
Only stereotypical jobs
Made up for not working
Sold something of theirs
Buying day old bread
Warming dishes in oven to save gas

3. Struggles African Americans Faced
Barely any jobs
30% less than white workers wage
if they had a job
At first NRA (National Recovery Act)
worked and it was equal
But NRA public works  didn’t really hire blacks and gave them awful wages
Faced KU Klux Klan, company thugs, and police violence
New Deal had little impact on blacks more for economic purposes
Black unemployment rates were two, three, or even four times those of white workers

4. City vs. Country Factories were shutting down in the city
City dwellers often went hungry
Soup kitchens in larger cities sometimes
Crowded, unheated, unsanitary living spaces
Cities attracted “beaten people” people who lost everything
Had to work harder to keep clean ; didn’t have electricity
Hospitals and doctors hard to reach
“Dust pneumonia "from working near farms
Weather influenced a great deal of their lives
Didn’t buy new clothes used flour sacks sometimes

5. Between Now and Then The 1920s were years of expansion
1920s was period of optimism
Gained money
Time of new thinking
New views of life
Laissez-faire policy
1930s was years of depression
Loss of money
Beginning of time period had a weak leader
Returned back to tradition instead of keeping thoughts of the 2o’s

6. Why it was difficult? The Stock market crash
Corrupted banks and companies
Banks closing people freaked out
Many businesses ran out of money
“Lived lean but didn’t starve”
Not much money
Stealing problems
to get food and money