Poverty in the 20s
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- Created on: 13-04-18 10:05
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- Poverty in the 20s
- Not everyone benefited from the Boom
- Vast gap between rich + poor
- Blacks
- Poor socio-economic background
- Prejudice in worst industrial jobs - Northern cities (eg. Detroit)
- Urban areas increasingly poor as rural workers migrated looking for jobs
- Overcrowding
- Cotton prices fell in 20s
- Mass poverty for rural black workers in South
- Farmers
- Expanded production during war + new tech. = prosperity
- Demand fell after war = overproduction = falling profits
- The Dust Bowl
- Growing rural unemployment = migration to cities
- Coal miners
- Oil industry = less coal = unemployment
- Blacks
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