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Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression by Errol Lincoln Uys tells the story of 250,000 children who were on the road in the 1930s. Based on 3,000 letters and interviews with former boxcar ...
THE GREAT DEPRESSION ... Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression, cover ... Boxcar kids, Great Depression
What was it like growing up during the Great Depression? For many people, life was a daily struggle. At the peak of the Depression, 25% of the nation's workers -- one out of four -- were unemployed.
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt - "During the Great Depression, ... Riding the Rails - From PBS.....how the Great Depression affected 250,000 teenagers who were living on the road at this time in history.
During the Great Depression, more than 250,000 children left their homes and hopped on freight trains crisscrossing the country. They were looking for work and adventure;
"I can't afford to have you around any longer." Like hundreds of thousands of other young people across the country during the Great Depression, the 16-year-old left home, hopped a freight train,
Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression (Paperback) ... First, he tackles a topic that has not traditionally been looked at--teenagers who, during the Great Depression,...
About the Book ... At the height of the Great Depression, 250,000 teenage hoboes were riding the rails and roaming America. Some left home out of desperation and went looking for work and a better life,
Ernestine Guerrero, the daughter of an unemployed carpenter, came of age in San Antonio, Texas, during the Great Depression.
Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression. By Errol Lincoln Uys. (New York: TV Books, c. 1999. Pp.302. $24.95, ISBN 1-57500-037-7.)
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