Looking for the New Deal: Florida Women's Letters During the Great Depression

ISBN-13: 9781570036583 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 243 str.

Elna C. Green

Opis

Rife with palpable misery, the hundreds of letters assembled in Forgotten Women paint a bleak and accurate portrait of the female experience among Floridians during the Great Depression. In pursuit of a means to provide for their families, Florida women doggedly, often naively, wrote letters to agencies, charities, and state and federal government officials asking for relief assistance. Green gathers more than three hundred letters written by Floridians that reveal the immediacy and intensity of their plight.