... are there. Was life really that hard then? As we all know, the Great Depression was one of the worst events in American History. It didn't just affect one race or culture, but literally the whole world. It began in 1929 after a fall in stock prices around September 4th of the same year. Then on October 29, 1929 (Known as Black Tuesday) it became worldwide news when ... the stock market crashed. Cities worldwide were hit hard, trade fell more than 50 ... % and the unemployment rate was up to more than 33% in some countries. By the mid 1930s some countries were able to bounce back from th...

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... 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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