TITLE

Depression Days

AUTHOR(S)

Fulcher, Mary

PUB. DATE

March 2007

SOURCE

Good Old Days;Mar2007, Vol. 44 Issue 3, p31

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article discusses the author's economic conditions during the economic depression in the U.S. in 1930s. Her unemployed father farmed watermelons to feed her and her siblings as well as their hogs. Oftentimes, her schoolmates would steal her lunch. The economic depression brought down the prices of many commodities like clothes and shoes.

ACCESSION #

24161195

Tags: FIRST person narrative;  DEPRESSIONS -- 1929 -- United States;  POOR families;  UNEMPLOYED

 

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