Gettin’ By by Makin’ Do: Women’s Lives on the Great Plains during the Great Depression”- Women's History Month

Gettin’ By by Makin’ Do: Women’s Lives on the Great Plains during the Great Depression”- Women's History Month 

 

After the Stock Market Crash of 1929, life changed radically for the vast majority of Americans. Funds and foods were hard to find. For those who lived in small towns, ranches, and farms on the Great Plains, life became harder than ever.

 

Based on her own research,  Dr. Sara Jane Richter's presentation provides a detailed look at how females carried on through desperate times. Regardless of families’ financial straits, they still had to eat, clothe themselves, doctor their ills, clean house, and work. Suffering with summer heat, making food, shoveling dust, and resewing their used clothing were just a few of the assignments that fell to women. With a PowerPoint presentation to accompany the text, Dr. Richter offers insights on how people got along in the worst of times in this cruel chapter of American history.