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Hard Times by Studs Terkel. Many books by him, actually.
https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Times-History-Great-Depression/dp/1565846567
most people did not lose their jobs during the great depression (75% employment rate). many people weren't affected much at all.
i'm no expert on the great depression, but i did read this book and found it quite fascinating how disparate the hundreds of personal stories and experiences were.
If you are going to tackle Terkel (and i recommend you do) I cannot give high enough praise for "Hard Times" which is an oral history of the Great Depression. It is simply mindblowing.
Hard Times by Studs Terkel. It's an oral history of the Great Depression by the editor/interviewer of my favorite non-fiction book, Working.
Well back in the day they had a much larger following which included blacks, yep the KKK was not always violent towards blacks.
Hard Times by Studs Terkel (1970, New York). The book is about the conditions in this country during the Great Depression. On page 239 we read:
"The Ku Klux was formed on behalf of people that wanted a decent living, both black and white. Half the coal camp was colored. It wasn't anti-colored. The black people had the same responsibilities as the white. Their lawn was just as green as the white man's. They got the same rate of pay. There was two colored who belonged to it. I remember those two coming around my father and asking questions about it. They joined. The pastor of our community church was a colored man. He was Ku Klux. It was the only protection the working man had. ....... One time a Negro slapped a white boy. They didn't give him any warning. They whipped him and ran him out of town. If a white man slapped a colored kid, they'd have dome the same thing. They didn't go in for beating up Negroes because they were Negroes. What they did was keep the community decent to live in. What they did object to was obscenity and drinking.".
"The Ku Klux Spirit", by J.A. Rogers, noted Negro historian of the 1920's. The Ku Klux Spirit was first published in 1923, by Messenger Publishing Co. It was republished in 1980, by Black Classic Press. On page 34 of his book we find the amazing passage: "A fact not generally known is that there were thousands of Negro Klansmen. These were used as spies on other Negroes and on Northern Whites."
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Very interesting. In the 1920's, there were plenty of original Klansmen still living as well as many other people of both races who lived during the Reconstruction Era. J.A. Rogers would have been able to interview many. Why would a Black historian make such a thing up? And if he did make it up there would have been plenty of people who would have objected. His book would not have survived to this day. Yet, it did.
Are you a fucking idiot?
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