The experiences of Americans during the Great Depression varied greatly. For most, the Great Depression was a timeof hardships and trials.

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        The experiences of Americans during the Great Depression varied greatly. For most, the Great Depression was a time

of hardships and trials. The way that people tried were different though, some languished in a collapsed economy, while others

had to struggle to make a living in the remote regions of the country. The years berween 1929 and 1933 were trying years for

people throughout the world. Inflation was often so high money became nearly worthless. America had lost the prosperity it had

known during the 1920's. America was caught in a trap of a complete meltdown of economy, workers had no jobs simply

because it cost too much to ship the abundance of goods being produced. This cycle was unbreakable, and produced what is

nearly universally recognized as the greatest economic collapse of all times. Almost 15 years passed since the ecomony started

raising up again. I have decided that its the right time to visit a famaliy that lived throughout the time of the depression. I chosed

the Kent family, one of the families that lived through the depression in Chicago, in area that was also called White City. In this

area there were no Black people and the only people around them were white. I would like to introduce and give alittle bit of a

background about Kent's family. The head of the house is John Joseph Kent, he was born in 1899, Chicago. His wife Edith

Sylvia Gordon Kent, was born in 1905 in New York. The couple has two daugthers: Beverly Ann Klement born on

September 1st 1925, and Mildred Namoa Kent was born on June 19, 1930, both of them were born in Chicago. John Kent

used to work in a newspaper corporation, on the paper that was called Heral Examiner. After working for his company his

boss told him that the corporation is getting closed because there is not enough money to support the employees. Edith used to

be housekeeper, and took care of the kids, but when the time got worse she found a job and tried to help the family to over

come the situation. As a reporter at from the Chicago Daily newspaper, I decided to interview a family that lived through the

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depression and in a White City, where blacks didn't live. The answer that I will get will infect my opinion about that decade.

Now its a time for some questions. I have no problem if everyone will answer my question, because im not directing it to noone specific.

1. Do you remeber the day of the crash, when the stock market crashed? what did you do? how did you react?

1.  (John) "I remember that day. The banks just closed their doors, I had $12 in the our bank account. And we had this account for many ...

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