hard times oral history great depression

In some vague way responsible, but not really.

Outsideįorces, except to the more articulate and political rebels, were And the mother, seeking work, said nothing. Thus, sons and fathers fell away, oneįrom the other. True there was a sharing among many of the dispossessed,īut, at close quarters, frustration became, at times, violence,Īnd violence turned inward. Matter that others suffered the same fate, the inner voice whispered, Marches and protestations to City Hall and Washington, but the millionsĮxperienced a private kind of shame when the pink slip came. Them an invisible scar.The suddenly-idle handsīlamed themselves, rather than society. The great many were wounded, in one manner or another. That there are some who were untouched or, indeed, did rather Of the holocaust known as The Great Depression from an improvised This is not a lawyers brief nor an annotated Statistic.The precise fact or the precise date is of smallĬonsequence. This is a memory book rather than one of hard fact and precise To Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression: Quotes from ∺ Personal Memoir (and parenthetical comment) In particular he seems interested in exploring the relationshipīetween their personal plight and values and their awareness of national Through the economic slump and what personal qualities surfaced asĪ result. He asks them how they managed financially and personally The crash of 1929, organized labor issues, farm holidays Terkel questions people about their recollections of employment problems, Gallery includes the interviews in those programs. In eleven parts on the Studs Terkel Program on WFMT radio (Chicago, Several interviews that were included in his book to be broadcast

His book on the Great Depression of the 1930s. Terkel interviewed hundreds of people across the United States for

Studs Terkel : Conversations with America

Hard times oral history great depression