Interview

the person i interview was someone that meant a lot to me she have been alive for over 80 years she wont tell me exactly how many years all she will say is my age is in the 80. I will be asking her 11 question on a time during the Great depression and when MLK and Malcolm X was working on making all Americans one and unsegregated. She is my great grandma but i just call her grandma cause she dont think she is old...lol

“Question”

1. What did you think about MLK’s “I Have a Dream Speech”?

“”I thank it could have been more demanding and if he had a lil more ATTITUDE I thank it would have work better than it did , but over all it like it I just had that lil problem.”

2. What did you think about Mr. King’s assassination?

“I’m not trying to be mean but I kinda felt it coming I wish it would’ve happened but God knew what he was doing because right after Mr. X came into play.”

3. Where were you when Mr. King was in action?

“I was in Georgia I cant remember exactly but I know I was here then.”

4. How did you feel about his assassination?

5. Who did you like more: Malcolm X or Martin L. King? Why did you pick that person?
“Ummmm I did not have a favorite I like some things about them both like I understand MLK trying not to use violence but it was moving to slow and Malcolm was more demanding it wanted it than and right then he did not want wait and that cause a lot of tension because it was a lot of hurt people.”

6. What did you think about segregation? How did this affect you and your family?
“Well this was a major movement I did not like it because we blacks were treated like s*** and I did not go to school but up to 8th grade”

7. Tell me about the Great Depression.

“I don’t really remember nothing but I did not really get to eat that much and that I was homeless that’s about it.”

8. What was the hardest thing to overcome during this time?

“Try to survive”

9. If you could change one thing form the depression what would it be? Why?

10. Is there still segregation today, and if so, in what forms? If no, explain.
Yes but more in a individual way because we are not restricted from doing nothing but some people separate them selves form other depending on race color living condition ect.”

11. What is one thing that has stayed with you since the Depression?
“Memories Memories Memories………..”

Boom Bust Recovery

Boom

19th amendment
Gave women right to vote
I choose this one because it was a big problem in this time.

18th amendment

The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages.

Bootlegger
Illegal selling of alcoholic beverages
This one was a biggie because after alcohol was banned bootleggers came into play. This was a movement that made so much money.

NAACP
Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination

Louis Armstrong
Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz
I choose him because he was the best.

Marcus Garvey
Promoted by the UNIA as a movement of African Redemption, Garveyism would eventually inspire others, ranging from the Nation of Islam, to the Rastafari movement.
Picked him because he was founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League

Harlem Renaissance
The movement influenced literature, drama, music, visual art, and dance and also in the realm of social thought (sociology, historiography, philosophy)
This was one of my top ten because this was a movement that we live off today

Duke Ellington
Recognized during his life as one of the most influential figures in jazz, if not in all American music
I picked this guy because he is the man with the most skills


F. Scott Fitzgerald
Was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age?
Picked because he was considered twentieth century's greatest writer

Babe Ruth
Was an American Major League baseball player from 1914 – 1935
Picked him because is one of the greatest sports heroes of American culture and has been named the greatest baseball player in history in various surveys and rankings

Bust

Herbert Hoover
Was the thirty-first President of the United States (1929–1933)
Picked him because he was a professional mining engineer and author.

Stock Market
Is a private or public market for the trading of company stock and derivatives at an agreed price
Because this was the major thing that effected the people during the depression

Black Tuesday
The day that the stock market crashed
Because it had a major impact on the community

Great Depression
Was a worldwide economic downturn
It was the largest and most important economic depression in the 20th century

Shantytowns
were settlements (sometimes illegal or unauthorized) of impoverished people who live in improvised dwellings made from scrap materials—often plywood, corrugated metal, and sheets of plastic
Because a large population of people lived in these

Hoovervilles
A crudely built camp put up usually on the edge of a town to house the dispossessed and destitute during the depression of the 1930s
Because 15,000 people living there

Soup kitchen
Sometimes obtain food from a food bank for free or at a low price, because they are considered a charity
Because it was one or the only ways poor people could eat

Bread lines
A line of people waiting to receive food given by a charitable organization or public agency
Main way people who were not financially stabled to be able eat

Dust Bowl
Was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936
Because it made a lot of people loose money and become poor

The Grapes of Wrath
It was a novel written by John Steinbeck and also a American drama film directed by Academy Award Winner Best Director, John Ford
Because it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature

Recovery

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Was the 32nd President of the United States.
Picked him because He was a central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war

Eleanor Roosevelt
She supported the New Deal policies of her husband F.D.R
Because she was First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945

New Deal

a sequence of central economic planning and economic stimulus programs he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the goal of giving aid to the unemployed, reform of business and financial practices, and recovery of the economy during The Great Depression.
Because it help a lot during the recovery years of America


FDIC (Glass-Steagall Act)
In the United States and included banking reforms, some of which were designed to control speculation
Because it collapse of a large portion of the American commercial banking system in early 1933.

AAA (Agricultural Adjustm

ent Act)
Restricted production during the New Deal by paying farmers to reduce crop area
Because 220,000 pregnant cows were slaughtered in the AAA's effort to raise prices

TVA
Is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933
Because it provided navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression.

Social Security Act
In the United States currently refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program
Because we this is very important in life today

Motion Pictures

Films that are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects
Because this number one entertainment in the U.S

CCC
Was a public work relief program for unemployed men, focused on natural resource conservation from 1933 to 1942.
Because it was to aid relief of high unemployment stemming from the Great Depression

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