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30 Eye-Opening Facts About Average Life During The Great Depression

Migrant Mother - Dorothea Lange

Crowds outside the Bank of United States in New York after its failure in 1931. World Telegram staff photographer/Library of Congress/New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection/Wikimedia Commons.

5. Maybe You Went on Strike

There were challenges working people faced during the Great Depression, to say the least; those years were some of the essential reasons for the development of workers’ rights. Workers successfully managed to organize strikes and gain power through unions. Many laws were changed as Americans came to realize that workers were the strength of a democratic government.

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