From 1930 to 1940 America was mired in the Great Depression. Allentown was not completely spared from the national nightmare, ...
The Great Depression started with the stock market crash of 1929, and was the most severe economic downturn in modern history. At its peak in the early 1930s, unemployment in the U.S. reached around ...
The Great Depression (1929-1939) was one of the hardest economic periods in American history. With unemployment reaching 25%, families had to stretch every dollar, make do with what they had, and get ...