Introduction

The 1930's era delivered significant events marking a memorable time in history.  This era's music, fashion, ecological disaster, and governmental leaders distinguish an unforgettable time from our past. This era provided us with better agricultural and economical ways to plan for the future.  Unfortunately we had learned from troubled times tainted with disasters and economic failure.  Investigate and learn about the leaders of this time and the disasters and victories the people survived such as: The New Deal, The Dust Bowl, The Stock Market Crash, Franklin Roosevelt, Bonnie and Clyde, and many others.

On the fourteenth day of April of nineteen thirty five,
There struck the worst of dust storms that ever filled the sky:
You could see that dust storm coming, the cloud looked deathlike black,
And through our mighty nation, it left a dreadful track...
This storm took place at sundown and lasted through the night,
When we looked out this morning we saw a terrible sight:
We saw outside our windows where wheat fields they had grown
Was now a rippling ocean of dust the wind had blown.
It covered up our fences, it covered up our barns,
It covered up our tractors in this wild and windy storm.
We loaded our jalopies and piled our families in,
We rattled down the highway to never come back again.

— Woody Guthrie (1912-1967)
From "Dust Storm Disaster"