And a handout was somethin' they would give to ya in a sack to take you know, they called it a "lump" also and a "knee-shaker" is when you would sit down on the back porch and they'd bring ya a tray of sandwiches or somethin' to eat and a "sit-down" was when they'd ask you to come in and you could eat with the family. Melt White, Dalhart, Texas: Each and everyday got worse and you couldn’t see no end, and you couldn’t see anything of any improvement.

That was days though, good gracious. He lives in Jasper, Minnesota.

He said, “They paid me $25 for two hours’ work.” He said, “That’s nearly a month’s wages and I don’t see how they can afford to pay wages like that.” He had no idea what it was all about, who they were, or what they was gonna make of it. Publicity Stills

", Clarence Lee, left Louisiana home in 1929 at age 16: I wanted to stay home and fight that poverty with the family. Matt Mindlin

Everybody had his or her own problem and they seemed to be all inward. "Well, you go back home and Roosevelt's starting this thing and you can go off to a CCC camp," and I said, "What the Army's running this thing, I'm not having any Army guys push me around.". Corbis-Bettmann Cultural Communications, Inc. David Steward

And the train hadn't even stopped, and there was a gun and a flashlight in my face, right up there in the blinds. John Fawcett, left West Virginia home in 1936 at age 16: It didn't matter which direction the train was going. Since men were expected to provide for their families, it was humiliating to have to ask for assistance. They were far more concerned about their day-to-day survival. I failed this time, but next year’ll be better.” And I never did see him have the look of givin’ up or quitting. I was finally ready to admit defeat. The land was green and lush, and the soil so rich, an observer noted, that it “looked like chocolate where the plow turned the sod.”. Narrator (reading letter): "I looked up to see the train enter a tunnel. So he says, "Okay, take off your shoes and let's have it." End of the day the farmer handed me 15 cents. James San Jule, left Oklahoma home in 1930 at age 17: I surprised my father as he was driving into the driveway when he came back and he was angry. And the pledge went something like this. Gillson Tallentire.". And one of my teachers said "We're not here to talk about things like that, I'm here to teach you Geometry." ", Peggy De Hart, left Wyoming home in 1938 at age 15: It was absolutely full of men, we were the only women. Judge Wilson Cowen, Dalhart, Texas: The Last Man’s Club was one of John McCarty’s efforts to build up courage in the minds of the people. He was always saying that “One of these days the rains will come again and this land will bloom like a rose.” And he was good at getting that message across. Guitar Whitey, Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds, left Washington home in 1938 at age 16: My father had a security business where he sold stocks and bonds and things and he was doin' real well up until about 1938, at which time he lost everything - and lost his business, couldn't even keep his house going or anything so my aunt let us live in a little cabin up in the hills rent-free while my father was trying to start another business, which he never did do. Say, boy, that one like to got you. Riding the Rails is produced by Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys. But just day and night, 24 hours, one 24-hour after the other, it just — but it’s 27 days and nights in the spring of 1935 it didn’t let up. Government involvement and responsibility in caring for the needy and regulating the economy came to be expected.

Jim Mitchell, left Wisconsin home in 1933 at age 16: Now there, there you are, Bill. Guitar Whitey, Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds, left Washington home in 1938 at age 16:Well I think Wild Boys of the Road, kids loved that movie. He took quick action to attack the Depression, declaring a four-day bank holiday, during which Congress passed the Emergency Banking Relief Act to stabilize the banking system. Everything I have is here.

Glenn Fukushima Lorene White, Manter, Kansas: My Dad was really proud. Collection, Texas Tech University Kansas State Historical Society It was a bad time. And even about half of the front door was blocked by this sand. Guitar Whitey, Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds, left Washington home in 1938 at age 16: I nearly was killed on my very first train ride. And got back a little after eleven. They stuffed window frames with gummed tape and rags. J.R. Davison, Texhoma, Oklahoma: I think that most of those people thought this is just what we might say 'hog heaven’. Melt White, Dalhart, Texas: There’d be lightning back in the Northwest, you’d see flickering lightning and Dad would say, “That’ll be in here about 2 o’clock in the morning.” But the rain was so welcome and they smelt so good I’d lay and listen to them pitter patter on the side of the old house at night and we’d really sleep. And that got a lot of 'em workin’ on it because they needed that dollar an acre. Dena Mermelstein, Re-recording Mixer I thought that was what life was all about. Great Depression 1936 Election World War II Executive Order 8802 1948 Election Civil Rights Act Deregulation "Goldilocks" Economy Census 2000 The Great Depression. Kathleen Beall To this day, I can go and see parks that we built. High winds and sun. It meant a future.

Studs Terkel But they said pneumonia and measles, they never did. So, we'd run the whole gamut, maybe six or seven months and then I would have had enough money to buy groceries to see the family through the winter. Jimmy Weinstein I got a couple short rides by hitchhiking. It was a very emotional time when you’d get rain because it meant so much to you.

Peggy De Hart, left Wyoming home in 1938 at age 15: And I was the first one there and somebody grabbed me by the nape of the neck and the seat of the pants and pitched me into that thing. With the outbreak of WWI, Washington wanted wheat — wheat would win the war! Melt White, Dalhart, Texas: Dad he’d get up in the mornin’ and feed the horses and harness the team, hitch 'em, and go to work. Lorene White, Manter, Kansas: Mom would mix, ah, kerosene and lard, and, ah, nowadays we have Crisco, but then we had lard, you know, and she would mix those together. Cost about three dollars and a half. In South Dakota I worked all day in a wheat field. Charley Bull, left California home in 1930 at age 19: As much as the romance might have been there, it was never as good as Richard Halliburton made it out to be.

And, well, that was devastating. Anything that could was stubbornly holding on. At 80, he works as the groundskeeper at St. David's School in Richmond, California.

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