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Sharecroppers During The Great Depression

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In the year of 1929, an estimated nine thousand banks failed and were shut down shortly after the stock market crash. Just a few months later, The Great Depression struck America. Everyone throughout the states were effected by this change in economy. Some, in different ways than others but none of which were effected in a positive way. Sharecroppers were forced out of their homes due to crops not being as worthy as they were before the stock market crash and struggled to produce food and supplies for there families. A.J. Harris, an Arkansas sharecropper during the depression, explains in the production of A Road To Rock Bottom that not very much crop was produced because of the economy falling apart, it wasn't worth anything. Ira Green, an
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