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Food During the Great Depression

Lectures in History

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Did Anyone Starve?

In 19 31, the health department recorded the deaths of 95 people by starvation in New York City. President hoover said late in his his term that nobody actually is starving but i think it's pretty clear that at least a few people were. We now know that the kids were missing out on alamans or a lot of the vitamans. This was true in some communities of tenant farmers who had been lending money to an african american store owner for years. In gsbend, alabama, tenants could not get loans from their land owners and so they would have to live off food hand-to-mouth. They just didn't know then that those children needed

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