Multimedia Collection
The Great Depression: Mean Things Happening
VHS
60 minutes
E806 .M451 1993
In the American democracy of the 1930s, two visions of liberty collided as working women and men battled landowners and factory managers for the right to join a union. On the tenant farms of the Arkansas Delta and in the steel factories of America's industrial heartland, working people asserted their citizenship in the midst of great economic turmoil and a tide of government reform.
Using newsreels, dramatic archival photographs and footage, Hollywood films, and eyewitness accounts, The Great Depression re-creates the time, from the end of the Roaring Twenties to the outbreak of the Second World War, when economic forces, political change, and social turmoil transformed the nation. This series puts people at the center of historical events - not only well-known heroes and statesmen, but women and men whose everyday experiences bring the story of our nation's past to life for audiences today.
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