Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
25.04.2018
Herausgeber
Kieran W. TaylorVerlag
University Of South Carolina PressSeitenzahl
210 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
1817 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781611178654
A chronicle of perseverance and hope in the face of economic crises and political change
Charleston and the Great Depression tells many stories of the city during the 1930s-an era of tremendous want, hope, and change-through a collection of forty annotated primary documents. Included are letters, personal accounts, organizational reports, meeting minutes, speeches, photographs, oral history excerpts, and trial transcripts. Together they reveal the various ways in which ordinary lowcountry residents-largely excluded from formal politics-responded to the era's economic and social crises and made for themselves a "New Deal."
Arranged in chronological order, the documents include Mayor Burnet R. Maybank's 1931 inaugural address, in which the thirty-two-year-old merchant-turned-politician warned grimly of worsening hardship; the trial testimony of Benjamin Rivers, an African American worker executed by the state after being convicted of murdering a Charleston police officer; horror writer H. P. Lovecraft's detailed walking tour of the city, in which the visiting New Englander painted a fascinating but romanticized portrait of Charleston that somehow managed to overlook the adversities facing the local population; and Susan Hamilton's powerful and contradictory memories of her enslavement, gathered as part of the Federal Writers Project.
The Great Depression was an era of economic crises and political change but was also a period of great hope and possibility as Americans from across the political spectrum persevered through hard times, driven by the conviction that government power could and should be used to alleviate suffering and create opportunities to better people's lives. These documents capture the voices of diverse Charleston residents-from farmers and dockworkers to students, ministers, public officials, and social workers-as they struggled and strove for a better city and a better country.
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