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grew up in rual alabama
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average family income dropped 50% by 1935
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Japan bombed Pearl harbor
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White women accused a black man for raping her an her father covered the story
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In deep south slavery was abolished but southerners very much still beilieved in white "supermacy"
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the stock market crashed
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The Swing Era
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Over 60% of the population at the time was considered poor
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since they bombed pearl harbor there was new jobs for eveyone so we came out of depression
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women had no rights
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1.Rich
2. White people, Country People
3.White Trah
4.Blacks