Enrichment Materials: Great Depression
These enrichment materials build upon concepts introduced in US History and Advanced US History courses. They incorporate and link perspectives from a wide array of peoples during this time period.
Labor Unions in the Great Depression
Race Relations in the 1930s and 1940s
Tribal testimony about the Indian Reorganization Act, 1934
Steelworker describing the decline of ethnic hostility in the 1930s
“For and Against the Ku Klux Klan”
John Collier’s promise to reform Indian policy
The Market Break: a financial periodical
The papers of Caroline Lockhart
“The Children’s Charter: Recognizing the Rights of Children”
Americans react to the Great Depression
"American Life Histories": A Depression-era collection
110+ hours worth of Great Depression interviews
Squatters near a highway in California (image)
Swimming pool created by Civilian Conservation Corps (image)
Interview about life at Farms Security Administration camps