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Title Hitting home : the Great Depression in town and country / edited with an introduction by Bernard Sternsher.

Imprint

Chicago, [Ill.] : Quadrangle Books, 1970.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Special Collections Whitehead	330.9043 H638 1970	---	Lib Use Only

Description	x, 291 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Contents	Depression city / David M. Katzman -- Unemployment relief in Philadelphia, 1930-1932 / Bonnie F. Schwartz -- Communists and Fascists in a Southern city : Atlanta, 1930 / John H. Moore -- Depression in Harlem / Federal Writers Project -- Frantic farmers fight law / Frank D. DiLeva -- Farmers Holiday Association strike, August 1932 / John L. Shover -- Economic effects of drouth and depression upon Custer County, 1929-1942 / Maurice C. Latta -- Harlan County coal strike of 1931 / Tony Bubka -- Oklahoma tribes, the Great Depression, and the Indian Bureau / B. T. Quinten -- When the banks closed / William H. Jervey -- Orange County during the depressed thirties / Robert L. Pritchard -- Burlington since the 1930's / Clark Johnson.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-291).
Subject	United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
	United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932.
	Depressions -- 1929.
Added Author	Sternsher, Bernard, 1925-2011.