1. The Great Depression and The Jim Crow South
The 1930s
The Great Depression and The Jim Crow South

2. Dorothea Lange
Photographer who travelled around the United States during the 1930s to capture the lives of those affected by the Great Depression.
Photos and information taken from:

3. Migrant Mother: 1936
"Destitute pea pickers living in tent in migrant camp. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two." Nipomo, California. February 1936. The anonymous subject of this famous Depression-era portrait known as "Migrant Mother" came forward in the late 1970s and was revealed to be Florence Owens Thompson.

4. Zollie Lyons: 1939
July "Zollie Lyons, Negro sharecropper, home from the field for dinner at noontime, with his wife and part of his family. Note dog run. Wake County, North Carolina."

5. In the Cotton: 1935
June Somewhere in California. "Motherless migrant children. They work in the cotton."

6. and Wife: 1939
Oregon, August "Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest. Note Social Security number tattooed on his arm.“ A public records search shows that   belonged to one Thomas Cave, born July 1912, died in 1980 in Portland. Which would make him 27 years old when this picture was taken.

7. Coal Miner’s Daughter: 1936
November "Home of Tennessee family of seven, now migratory workers living in camp outside of Sacramento, California. Father was coal miner in Tennessee but when the mines were not working received two days a week relief work. 'Thought we could make it better out here'.“

8. Elm Grove: 1936
August "People living in miserable poverty. Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma." A good (or bad) example of the Depression-era shantytowns known as Hoovervilles.

9. The Jim Crow South
Racism and Segregation in the Southern United States
Information taken from: National Endowment for the Arts. “Historical Context: The Jim Crow South.” Reader’s Guide: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Apr. 2009: 8-9. Print.

10. Jim Crow Laws
After the Civil War and by 1910, most southern states passed laws that allowed the segregation, or separation, of white and black people in public places.
These laws were known as “Jim Crow” Laws, named after a white singer who blackened his face and sang the song “Jump Jim Crow”.

11. Jim Crow Laws
These laws often enforced a curfew for blacks and posted “Whites Only” and “Colored” signs on parks, schools, hotels, water fountains, restrooms, and all forms of transportation.

12. Rex Theatre: 1937
Leland, Mississippi. June 1937

13. Jim Crow Laws
Laws against “race-mixing” deemed all marriages between white and black people not only void but illegal.
Often, these laws were different from state to state, and the punishments were more severe depending on the state or even the town’s policy.
For example, back-talking would cause a laugh in one town, but a lynching (being hanged from a tree) in the next town over.

14. Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
The KKK was a white supremacist group that had 6 million members.
Mob violence was encouraged
Torture became a public spectacle
Some white families brought their children to lynchings
Between 1889 and 1930, over 3,700 men and women were reported lynched in the United States

15. Lynching and the kkk

16. The end of jim crow
Blacks felt the effects of Jim Crow until the 1960s Civil Rights movement.
Court cases like Brown vs. Board of Education and people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. stood up against the Jim Crow mentality and set blacks free from the segregation and persecution they had suffered for so many years.