Images from The Great Depression

Black TuesdayOctober 29, 1929

Millions lost their jobs

People packed up everything they owned and moved when they lost their homes.

On the Road

Destitute pea pickers in California

Lange, Dorothea

Drought turned the land into a Dust Bowl

Flood refugee encampment at Forrest City, ArkansasEvans, Walker

"We're living in a tent because we wouldn't pay anyone thirty or thirty-five dollars for a two-room bug trap." Mission Valley, San

Diego, California.Lee, Russell

Poverty was widespread

Family of tenant farmer at noonday meal near Muskogee, Oklahoma. His wife is shooing away

flies with branch. Lee, Russell

Square in midtown. San Diego, California.Lee, Russell

Looking for work

Shanty Towns

Soup Kitchens

The Bread Line

Strike

Segregation

White Supremacy