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Elna Green's fine collection of Florida women's depression-era letters makes for poignant reading.

Elna Green's fine collection of Florida women's depression-era letters makes for poignant reading.

Start by marking Looking for the New Deal: Florida .

Start by marking Looking for the New Deal: Florida Women's Letters During the Great Depression as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. In pursuit of a means to provide for their families, Florida women doggedly, often naively, wrote letters to agencies, charities, and state and federal government officials asking for reli Rife with palpable misery, the hundreds of letters assembled in Forgotten Women paint a bleak and accurate portrait of the female experience among Floridians during the Great Depression.

Green wisely organizes the letters by chronological periods of the Great Depression. While many of the complaints and pleas remain consistent-we need a loan, why can I not join this government program, please get my husband out of jail-the tone of the letters gradually changes, reflecting a slowly building confidence. The letters also illustrate an ever-growing fondness for the Roosevelts and a sense that even the president, who seemed like a neighbor due to his "Fireside Chats," might act like a neighbor and intervene in a domestic crisis.

Green, Elna C. (Ed. (2007) Looking for the New Deal :Florida . Location & Availability for: Looking for the New Deal : Florida women. (2007) Looking for the New Deal :Florida women's letters during the Great Depression Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, MLA Citation. Green, Elna . eds. Looking For The New Deal: Florida Women's Letters During The Great Depression. Columbia : University Of South Carolina Press, 2007. These citations may not conform precisely to your selected citation style. Please use this display as a guideline and modify as needed.

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Unfortunately, during the Great Depression, the Great Plains were hit .

Unfortunately, during the Great Depression, the Great Plains were hit hard with both a drought and horrendous dust storms, creating what became known as the Dust Bowl. Years and years of overgrazing combined with the effects of a drought caused the grass to disappear. With just topsoil exposed, high winds picked up the loose dirt and whirled it for miles. Looking back, however, it is uncertain as to how much Roosevelt's New Deal programs helped to end the Great Depression. economy was still extremely bad by the end of the 1930s.

The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the .

By 1930, 4 million Americans looking for work could not find it; that number had risen to 6 million in 1931. Bread lines, soup kitchens and rising numbers of homeless people became more and more common in America’s towns and cities. Depression-era hardships had fueled the rise of extremist political movements in various European countries, most notably that of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime in Germany.

The women during the Great Depression tried to get any job they could Looking for the New Deal: Florida Women’s Letters during the Great Depression.

The women during the Great Depression tried to get any job they could. Yet one of the barriers in getting jobs was the supply and demand of employment. Obviously many women needed jobs and they were very few to go around in the Great Depression. One job that many of these women throughout the years in Florida sought after were teaching positions. Here was a job that women were allowed and expected to work at regardless of Depression times. Looking for the New Deal: Florida Women’s Letters during the Great Depression. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. Image: Woman of the High Plains, Texas Panhandle.

During The Great Depression, banks failed, businesses closed, city streets were desolates, families lost their homes, and unemployment in the rose to nearly 25%. The images below of men and women desperately looking for jobs to feed their families tell the grim story of a time we wish. The images below of men and women desperately looking for jobs to feed their families tell the grim story of a time we wish to never happen again. The Great Crash, New York, 1929. Photo: Afp/AFP/Getty Images. The culmination of many years of economic instability happened when the stock market crashed on "Black Tuesday," October 29, 1929.