... after discovering his passion for photography, he went on to become one of America's best documentary photographers. In 1935, Evans joined the Farm Security Administration (FSA) recording the poverty of America's rural population. The great Depression, starting with the Wall Street Crash in 1929, coupled with the Dust Bowl disaster in Oklahoma, made it a period of extreme hardship. Dorothea Lange lived from 1885 to 1965. Lange was ... one of the best FSA photographers. She toured the South where she found the most impoverished and desperate victims of the depression, the Blacks. Philipp...

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... economy can get to this day. The Great Depression affected not only the stock market and banks but also had an effect on almost every citizen's personal bank account, all of which tend to have a domino effect on one another. During "Black Tuesday", the day of the stock market crash of 1929, chaos ensued as people rushed to the banks to try to save their ... 75 years ago, Dorothea Lange's timeless photo of Thompson and her children leaning on her who are all evidently dirty as well as exhausted has truly immortalized the true sense of the hardships of the Great Depression both physically...

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