... After World War I, unemployment and inflation sky rocketed. The Army discharged six hundred thousand soldiers still in training camps and Navy brought AEF soldiers home from France. The soldiers were hustled back into civilian life. This now created thousands of men with families jobless. Women who did have jobs ... soldiers. The cost of goods such as food and clothing more than doubled over prewar rates. African Americans thought that their contribution to fighting and home fronts would get them better treatment. They soon found out that nobody was too eager to offer them that. Race ri...

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... milk trucks and dumped the milk into ditches to dramatize the low pay they received for their products. During the 1932, the worst year of the Great Depression, 32.000 businesses failed. Untold number of people lost their homes because they could not keep up mortgage payments. In the South and Midwest, one of every farm families was forced off the ... 1.5 million people were wandering about the country in search for work. Many of these wanderers were teenage boys and girls. Some of them told social workers that they had left home so that what money there was could be stretched to feet t...

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