1930's Great Depression and Dust Bowl in Photos

This is a video I made for an English pre-reading activity of the book Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck (Awesome book by the way. It features photos from the Great Depression and The Dust Bowl. It's a little emotional, at least to me, and I just wanted to share it with the rest of the world. The Great Depression and The Dust Bowl were 2 tragic events that occurred in the 1930's and this is just a little piece of the history of that time. I don't own neither the photos nor the music. I found the pictures on different online sources and if their information is correct, they all date back to the 30's and 40's.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• The Great Depression
• The Dust Bowl
• 1930s
• 1940s
• sad music
• american history
• old pictures
• beautiful

[dipinprint]

arveal looking horse"the keeper of the pipe" said "we our going to have another dust bowl in this generation,the buffalo are gone from the plain's and we are using up the natural underground water that is left from the last dust bowl.we as a nation need use less and less nested of more and more. that wasthe words of arveal looking horse of the sioux people.

[Jamesc457]

Great video I saw this the other day when we where trying too understand the era when "of mice and men" set and it nearly made me cry because it shows the worlds most powerful nation struck down.

[cyndi731]

Our spirit remains undaunted in the direst of circumstances. will we allow ourselves to experience this again? I certainly hope not.

[dipinprint]

at 2:26 was in my 5th grade history book,my drandma was only 8 or 9 years old when the dust bowl happend, and i know alot of american indians from my moms side who were alive when it happend and have told me that if the farmers and ranchers keep doing what thay are doing and not use the land like it is meant to be it will happen again. i love the pics show's a grate and sad history of the usa.

[ATSF1927]

I remember the Dirty 30s when I was living in Wichita, Kansas and I have never forgot Easter Sunday 1935 also called Black Sunday. I remember helping Mother put wet rags around and over the windows and doors. The Depression was survivable compared to the Dirty 30s. I enjoyed the music, the video and the memories.

[tristansmom982000]

this is what the rich corporations want to happen to people again and they don't care. Long as they live in their Ivory towers and get to bloe tyheir money on crap they don't need to survive!

[ilyabnerily]

@msgeorgeus1 2 days??

[ilyabnerily]

@MrShapiroman lol

[MrShapiroman]

@PhiloAmericana do not laught at my family nor my country!

[fantastic3ify]

@vrplumber3 it's by yiruma river flows in you