UWSSLEC LibGuides: Roll of Thunder : African American Life in the 1930s: The Great Depression

The Great Depression Timeline

Mississippi in the 1930's

Depression and Hard Times in Mississippi
Article on the Great Depression and the effect it had on the state of Mississippi
America in the 1930's
Good comprehensive website from the University of Virginia on the U.S. in the 1930's.

Non-Fiction Book Titles about the Great Depression and African Americans

Down Cut Shin Creek : the pack horse librarians of Kentucky - Kathi Appelt & Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer

Call Number: 027.076 APP

ISBN: 0060291354

Publication Date: 2001

Children of the Great Depression - Freedman, Russell

Call Number: 305.23 FRE

ISBN: 9780618446308

Publication Date: 2005

Children of the Dust Bowl : the true story of the school at Weedpatch Camp - Jerry Stanley

Call Number: 305.23 STA

ISBN: 0517587823

Publication Date: 1992

Riding the rails : teenagers on the move during the Great Depression - Errol Lincoln Uys

Call Number: 305.5 UYS

ISBN: 0415945755

Publication Date: 2003

To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans in the Great Depression - Cheryl Lynn Greenberg

Call Number: 305.896 Gre

ISBN: 978-0742551893

Publication Date: 2010

Overview

The era which began soon after the Stock Market crash of 1929, the Great Depression was one of the worst economic downturns in United States history.

Brother Can You Spare a Dime?

Keywords and Phrases for Research

Great Depression				Dust Bowl
Depression -1929				Stock Market Crash 1929
Dust Bowl Era				Migrant Workers
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)				WPA
New Deal

Stories about The Great Depression

Related Websites

Race During the Great Depression
The Library of Congress developed a timeline that included information related to race relations during the 1930s and 1940s.
Primary Source Sets - The Great Depression - Themed Resources - For Teachers (Library of Congress)
Specific artifacts (images, manuscripts, maps, sound files) with analysis tools help students think like historians about a particular historical event or phenomenon.
National Archives Experience
Screenshot of the Digital Vaults showing an interconnected web of records.
The Great Depression and World War II
Lessons from the National Archive.
America in the 1930s
Lessons and Primary Source Documents.
The Great Depression - Awesome Stories
Primary source documents.
History Now
Images, documents, and letters about the Great Depression era.

Subject Guide

Amy Siegert