Inside the Hoovervilles of the Great Depression, 1931-1940

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A Hooverville was the popular name attributed to shanty towns that sprung up throughout the United States during the Great Depression. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it. Americans affixed the president’s name to these shanty towns […]

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