Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South write by Kenneth J. Bindas. This book was released on 2007. Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of more than 600 oral histories recalls the Great Depression and provides a rich personal chronicle of the 1930s. The Depression altered the basic structure of American society and changed the way government, business, and the American people interacted. Capturing this historical era and its meaning, the stories in Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South reflect the general despair of the people, but they also reveal the hope many found through the New Deal.
I Must Remember This
I Must Remember This - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Must Remember This write by George Youngblood. This book was released on 2006-08. I Must Remember This available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Joe, George, and Richard Youngblood, three white brothers growing up in the rural South during the Great Depression, live in a world of paradoxes: love and hate; doubt and faith; and sadness and humor. In his poignant memoir I Must Remember This: A Southern White Boy's Memories of the Great Depression, Jim Crow, and World War II, author George Youngblood shares stories about everything from the brothers' first awareness of death, sex, and race to the truth about Santa Claus. They smoke rabbit tobacco, tremble at ghost and snake stories, watch haircuts for excitement, get baptized, and gawk at locomotives and alligators. Hard times draw the Youngblood family closer to their father's black farm workers. With one family in particular they form a symbiotic relationship in the hostile world of poverty, disease, and segregation. I Must Remember This is Youngblood's family story as they hope, work, and laugh with little cause-and succeed with basic honesty, respect, and an astounding sense of humor.
Battleground Memories
Battleground Memories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Battleground Memories write by Joe C. Westbrooks. This book was released on 2006. Battleground Memories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "For over two decades Joe Cash Westbrooks documented his memories of life in rural Cherokee County, South Carolina during the Great Depression. His handwritten memoirs, taped together to form an extensive scroll, recall a lifestyle that remains only in the fading memories of those who lived it. In 1994, Joe's son Randy began the diligent task of organizing and recording his father's scrolls. Through the years, he has come to call them the "Battleground Scrolls" after the area in which his father grew up near the Cowpens Battlefield in view of Thicketty Mountain." -- cover p. 4.
Things I Remember
Things I Remember - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Things I Remember write by Glenn Thomas Doyle. This book was released on 2013-02-26. Things I Remember available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Some Americans who were born and raised during the Great Depression, have passed from this life although many still remain with us. Many famous books, movies and television shows have covered stories from that generation and many of them continue to fascinate the current generations living today (e.g. “The Great Depression” mini series on HBO and “The Walton's” reruns from the 1970s). It was an era before the popularity of television itself and people lived simpler lives and enjoyed the basic pleasures of life such as children playing in the outdoors and families enjoying each others company without the popular electronic distractions we are surrounded by today.People of The Depression Era also experienced many struggles and challenges in life that are not experienced on the same scale by Americans today. Stories of getting by in the face of adversities during The Great Depression and of the bond between family and friends are inspiring and they often demonstrate the triumph of the human spirit and the power of human love. The stories that will be related within the pages of this book include those very attributes and many also simply include the nostalgic memories of an era gone by, through the eyes of the late Glenn Thomas Doyle, as compiled and presented as a collection of short stories, in their original form and language, by his niece, Janice F. Lowrance. It is my sincere hope that I have done justice to the formatting of these wonderful and inspiring related stories from some of the “Good Old Days” of the American experience.-Janice F. LowranceBOOK HEADINGS:Childhood During the Great DepressionA Southern Boy's Preteen YearsFrom Working At Home To Defending My CountryMy Life After Military Discharge The Most Important Message In Life
Gadsden, Alabama
Gadsden, Alabama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gadsden, Alabama write by . This book was released on 1999-12-01. Gadsden, Alabama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 1930s were an unparalleled period in American history. Never before or since - and probably never again - has the gamut of human emotions swung so far, and so fast. On October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed and soon after, the nation of plenty was in turmoil and fast becoming a wasteland. No sacred institution was left untouched; banks failed, factories shut down, stores closed, and almost every business seemed paralyzed with economic stagnation. A generation raised in these conditions could not help but be changed by such foreboding circumstances. It was a period in which new trends of thought emerged in economic matters, social activity, and moral conduct - all leaving the pockmark of progress upon the nation's young. This book presents a revealing portrait of one man's life during the Depression. His particular story is derived from a specific location in the state of Alabama; however, it is an intimately familiar tale to anyone who survived that horrible economic period, and to younger generations who have allowed the stories to endure in their family lore.
