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The Great Depression 1930-1939. During this time the prices of stock fell 40%. 9,000 banks went out of business. 9 million savings accounts were wiped out. 86,00 businesses
failed. Wages decreased by 60% which left 15 million jobless people.This photo by photographer Dorothea Lange has become one the world's most famous images. At the height of the Great Depression Lange photographed the woman and her two small children. It came to
epitomize the
poverty & suffering of those displaced.
The photo was issued as a US stamp and a copy was sold for $250,000. On exhibition at the Lowry in Salford:
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The famous picture of the airship Hindenburg
as it exploded and crashed spectacularly while docking at Lakehurst, NJ on May 6,
1937 and 35 people died
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Lynching 1930 A mob of 10,000 whites
took sledgehammers to the county jailhouse doors to get at these two
young blacks accused of raping a white girl. The girl's uncle saved
the life of a third by proclaiming the man's innocence. Although
this was Marion, Indiana most of the 5,000 lynchings documented
between Reconstruction and the late 1960s were perpetrated in the
South. (Hangings, beatings and mutilations were called the sentence
of "Judge Lynch.") Some lynching photos were made into
postcards designed to boost white supremacy, but the tortured bodies
and grotesquely happy crowds ended up revolting many
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From January 1920 Prohibition became
Law Bootlegging fell under the control of criminal gangs who went to
war with each other to secure profits. Seven members of the O'Banion-Moran
gangs were lined up in a Chicago warehouse in 1929 and gunned down
in what became known as the St Valentine's Day Massacre
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December 5, 1933, marked the end of Prohibition for the United
States. Utah was the last state to ratify the 21st Amendment, which nullified the 18th Amendment. The 18th Amendment prohibited the sale or transportation of
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Jesse Owens 1939 Berlin Olympics. James Cleveland Owens
(Born September 12, 1913 Oakville, Alabama - Died March 31, 1980 Phoenix, Arizona)
American track-and-field athlete, who set a world record in the long jump that stood for 25 years
Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. His four victories were a blow to Adolf Hitler's intention to use the
Olympics to demonstrate Aryan superiority
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