United States — History — 1933-1945

  • Other people’s houses

    The half-hour serial reading program “Continued tomorrow” featured “Other people’s houses” by Lore Segal in December 1972 and January 1973. It was an autobiographical novel, written and read by Lore Segal, about her childhood in Hitler’s Vienna, growing up in English foster homes, three years in the Dominican Republic, and her first years as a…

  • Of the 30’s : life and literature / Malcolm Cowley.

    Talks life in the U.S. in the 1930’s. |r.1. The crisis in belief, 1930-33 (49 min.) — r.2. The international crisis, 1933-38 (55 min.) — r.3. The moral crisis, 1938-41 (53 min.) — r.4. A retrospect of the 1930’s (59 min.).

  • The 30s are still with us / Paul Jacobs.

    Jacobs, of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, traces the emergence of poverty from the Great Depression.|THE 30’s ARE STILL WITH US / Paul Jacobs. – Jacobs, of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, traces the emergence of poverty from the Great Depression on. – RECORDED: at the opening of the…

  • The 30s left no story tellers / Paul Jacobs.

    Autobiographical view of the 1930’s social realities of the 1930’s.|THE 30’s LEFT NO STORY TELLERS / Paul Jacobs. – Autobiographicl view of the 1930’s–the Great Depression, social realities, and the impact of the global economic problems upon Americans. – BROADCAST: KPFA, 26 Jan. 1963.

  • Hard times come here first / produced by Brenda McCallum.

    Oral history of life in Birmingham, Alabama during the Great Depression. Men and women discuss the “hobo jungles,” burrowing through foundary ashes in search of coal to burn, handout lines, and scavenging wild plants for food.