THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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protests organized by the Communist Party to demand higher taxes for the wealthy in order to feed the poor.
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lines at soup kitchens and relief centers where people went to get free meals.
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runs on banks by customers trying to recoup their losses.
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the deliberate destruction of food by farmers in order to keep prices up.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Protesters would try to make the point that lack of work meant they were unable to buy sufficient food to avoid hunger for themselves and their families. The first such march took place in 1905. The term “hunger march” was coined three years later in 1908.
Detailed explanation-2: -National Hunger March, 1932 The marches worried the government who made sure there was a significant police presence, and deployed spies to infiltrate groups. Force was also used in some cases to confiscate petitions to prevent them reaching parliament.
Detailed explanation-3: -In July 1931, socialists Carl Branin and Hulet Wells, who published the Vanguard, decided to create their own “citizen-action group” to demand reasonable wages and relief for those out of work. [3] Fifty individuals attended their first meeting in West Seattle and the Unemployed Citizens’ League was born.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1931 there were local hunger marches and marches on state capitols in about a dozen states, often with marchers converging from different parts of the state to demand relief and unemployment insurance. The first national hunger march took place on December 7, 1931, timed to coincide with the opening of Congress.