The Impact Of The Great Depression On Mexican Americans

During the Great Depression migrant workers had a hard time finding work. There were more workers than jobs. Migrant workers would travel from farm to farm to try and find jobs. They would pick fruit and harvest crops for very low wages. Mexican migrant workers had done pretty good making a living on farms before the Great Depression. During the Great Depression they were encouraged to leave America and give up their jobs.

Most Mexican-origin people in the United States live in places that were once part of their homeland. The Great depression was a massive global economic crisis that took place from 1929 to 1941. During this decade, Mexicans people became targets for nativist who blamed them for unemployment and demanded they be deported. By 1929, the richest 1 percent of the population owned 40 percent of the nations wealth, while the bottom 93 percent experienced a 4 percent drop in per capita income. Between 1929 and 1932, more than 13 million workers lost their jobs. Mexicans as a whole were vulnerable; they worked at menial jobs that the Depression hit the hardest. Unemployed white “Americans” began to look for any kind of work, even “Mexican work,” which they once avoided. The California legislator passed the 1931 Alien Labor Law, which forbade contractors from hiring non-citizens workers for highway construction, school and government office buildings, and other public projects.

In 1920 i was borned in california , los angeles. When i was born there was influx of mexicans double los angeles population 577,000 to over 1.2 million between 1920 and 1929, los angeles got a nickname the “ mexicans capital of united states.”I was born the oldest in family ,I had to do chores and clean house.When I was 9 the great depression happened. The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, originating in the United States.The depression impact the family and mexican community.It was hard to get a job and get food.All U.S. workers faced job crisis and food shortages.

Immigration from Mexico vastly affected the United States in various ways. When immigration initiated, various concerns arose due to the threat of national security, and due to society’s fear of what type of person enters America unrestrictedly. Anti-immigrant people have whined about America’s lack of restriction on immigrants, especially with the knowledge of how much human trafficking and drug smuggling occurs down south near the border. While there are some benefits to immigration such as cheap labor, it, however, doesn’t overcome the shortcomings of immigration and its policies present in the United States.

During the 1930s, small movements began growing, based on the goal of achieving civil rights. The fight for equality began even further back, but during these years new movements grew and organizations stood in the spotlight once more for Mexican Americans and African Americans. Various events occurred in the 1930s, one being the monumental Great Depression that devastated numerous families. African Americans and Mexican Americans were affected as well, being denied relief in areas such as Houston because people believed the resources at hand should be given to the white race first before helping the minorities. In fact, treatment was very unfair, if you were a minority, you would be the first to be fired or the last to be hired. Unemployment

Between 1929 and 1939 there was an economic downfall know better was the Great Depression. According to the Family and Home, Impact of the Great Depression article on encyclopedia.com, The Great Depression challenged American families in major ways, placing great economic, social, and psychological strains and demands on families and their members. Families of various class, ethnic, racial, and regional backgrounds, various styles of marital and familial relationships, responded in different ways to the stresses and demands that they had to deal with. In 1933, the average family income had dropped to $1,500, 40 percent less than the 1929 average family income of $2,300. Millions of families lost their savings when many banks collapsed in the

The Great Depression changed all my life, not only mine, but my whole family. The Great Depression has caused you to lose one of my children, my farm, my house and into my bag. I'm trying my entire livelihood through this mess because I know my wife and my children depend on me. I just want to be able to feed and provide for my family and not have to fight. When we lost our house and everything else, we have lost all our extra clothes, so they only have the clothes that are in the back now. I hope, where my family and I moved, it can be a better life for us there.

These photos showed us the growing hopelessness of the workers in the east coast. The photos of the abandoned houses, dirty skin, empty streets, all gave us a feeling of sorrow in our gut. She showed us continually showed us the man without work and the woman trying her best to keep her children alive.

Immigration policy in the United States has been a facet of the political and policy arena for the past couple decades. However, the issue of illegal immigration and whether or not a wall should be constructed along the southern border of the United States has captivated the political arena. As would be expected, the political side is not always aligned with the policy side because the political side tends to be subjective in rhetoric and decision-making, and the policy side is largely objective in decision-making. The essence of the political view on illegal immigration can be illustrated by observing a recent speech by 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump. According to Key (2015), Ann Coulter introduced Donald Trump at a rally and stated,

The era of the 1930's through the 1940's is one of the darkest periods in America’s history. It was a time of despair for all Americans. This dreadful time was caused by various reasons and hit America when it was least expected. It also had many effects which left an impact on America still up to this day. At that time, there was no abundance of anything: no jobs, no food, and certainly no abundance of money. However, there was surely an abundance of sadness. America had no hope since the money was a thin, green line, and there was no food or clean water to drink. The monstrosity began on the year of 1930 and lasted up to the year of 1940 or in some places even more. The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl were one of the most famous

The Great Depression touched people at every race and income level. It seemed no one was exempt from the emotional and economic toll of the downturn. Lives were turned upside down, and many did not know how to cope. With the financial collapse, kids lost their college funds, and families lost their homes. Families had to resort to making shelter any way they could. Communities were erected in almost every state that consisted of shelters made of crates and metal sheets; these communities were known as “Hoovervilles” (Leuchtenburg, pg. 251). Others would seek refuge in caves, subways, and under bridges (Leuchtenburg, pg. 252). The life savings of many were lost before anyone could comprehend what was happening.

This photo is an image of a billboard along U.S. 99 behind which three poverty-stricken families of migrants are currently living. It presents the different hardships that these families faced during the dust bowl and all of the different things they had to fight through just to survive. There is a national crisis relating to displaced farmers and their families having no place to go and having to live in poverty. The audience is first drawn to the billboard that is partially cut off from our view. This is because the photographer is trying to reel one into what lies beneath the sign.

For this paper, to identify the consequences of the great depression in France I will have to obtain a variety of sources that explain how they got involved. Using these sources I will be able to figure out who was mainly damaged and how they try to resolve issues. I will also be able to identify who else was involved that may have caused things get worse. Information of France before and after the great depression will also be helpful to analyze the consequences they had to make and how Frances government resolves their issues. The sources that I will use to find this information are articles on the gold standard and France, books on France 's economy, images of the people in France during the great depression.

Photographers have been moving many of american 's deeply and helped support the new deal legislation from sharecroppers, farmers and migrant workers. Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, and John Vachon, were all photographers, during The Great Depression, who wanted to show the government what the world had become. Every single person that is named in this background has also suffered of the depressing same as the family’s in the photo’s while the stock market crashed(the great depression ) have lost many things they have loved.The FSA photographers and rural poverty show us the determination of the black and white’s, poor to poorest, and what they have lost, most of these families never gave up and tried their hardest to keep what they made and made the best out of it, no matter if the only thing they had is a blanket above their head.

Mahatma Gandhi, a legendary activist for humans, once said, “A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and soul of its people.” People drive our culture not only as a nation, but also as a global community. Without people from the past not only would humans not be able to develop as a society, but they would not be able to learn from mistakes made in the past. This iconic period in American history, known as the Great Depression, truly did change the cultural and social aspects of the United States. In the Great Depression, pop culture provided an outlet for the millions of deprived unemployed Americans. Men commonly fled their homes and families out of shame of their inability to find work, leaving it up to their wives to find jobs and take care of the children. The Great Depression was a hard time for many Americans, but influenced many aspects in their lives of civilians including crime, entertainment, and art.