Depressions1929 Fiction

Tales of Growing Up in Hard Times

Submitted by Bruce Farrar on Thu, 09/16/2010 - 5:04pm


What was it like to be an American kid in the 1930’s? Most people were poor, even those who had been well off just a few years before. There was a drought in the Midwest. In northern Texas and Oklahoma there dust storms that blotted out the sky. Here are three tales of kids growing up during these hard times.

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