... started to become writers and the Harlem Renaissance existed. The increase in black writers carried over into the 1930's along with the addition of other famous writers, such as John Steinback and Sinclair Lewis. In the 1920's the manners and morals were very much challenged, another effect of new mortality, and things greatly changed. In 1930 there was more so a cry for ... ...
... unions that welcomed all the workers in an industry now challenged the older unionism of skilled workers in a particular trade, represented by the American Federation of Labor (AFL). In 1936 John L. Lewis, head of the United mineworkers of America (UMWA), left the AFL to organize a labor federation based on industrial unionism. He founded the Committee for Industrial Organizations, later known as the ... ...
... to accept government help, optimistically believing that better days were ahead. Some moved out of the plains, running from not only drought but from the new machine-controlled agriculture. As John Steinbeck wrote in the bestseller The Grapes of Wrath, "it was not nature that broke the people-they could handle the drought. It was business farming, seeking a better return on ... family. Ultimately though, as Worster writes, the effect of the magnetic outward pull of the capitalistic ideals was stronger than the principals of the family. Post-Progressive Conservationists, such as Lewis Gr...
