Early 1930s, Hoovervilles, the place where people who had lost everything during the depression lived. One step before total homeless

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Early 1930s, Hoovervilles, the place where people who had lost everything during the depression lived. One step before total homeless

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Early 1930s, Hoovervilles, the place where people who had lost everything during the depression lived. One step before total homeless

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Untold History: In 1868, the British Navy rescued African slaves from Arab slave traders in Zanzibar

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New York City's Central Park during the Great Depression, 1933

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In 1919, a tank holding approximately 13,000 tons of molasses burst in Boston. The burst released a 25 foot tall wave of molasses that ripped through a Boston neighborhood at 35 mph (56km), destroying a number of buildings, injuring 150, and killing 21 people.

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A photo of Central Park during the Great Depression (New York, 1933[OC]

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Untold History: In 1868, the British Navy rescued African slaves from Arab slave traders in Zanzibar

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Early '30s saw 2.5mil people unemployed. Soup kitchens had line-ups like this

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Survivors of the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare await emergency medical treatment in Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, (1945)

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Unemployed at their huts in a Hooverville in New York City, 1935 (West Houston and Mercer Street)

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This photo shows the aftermath of the Tulsa Race Massacre (1921), one of the most violent massacres in American history. It occurred in Greenwood, often called the "Black Wall Street." 1,256 houses were burned, and 215 houses were looted, with $27 million of property damages

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Untold History: In 1868, the British Navy rescued African slaves from Arab slave traders in Zanzibar