1936 this family suffered through the Dust Bowl in Amarillo Texas.  These kids suffered for a good hygiene in bathing and in clothes from there parents to not only did there original house blow down and get full of dust but they moved and rebuilt there new little house of metal and plastic roof toppings and there left over clothes that they took with them “I don’t like living out here there’s nobody to play with besides my sister and I miss our old house and I haven’t been to take a shower instead me and my sister and my mom walk two times a week to the lake down the road to bathe”

In 1933 all these kids came out to protest because all there parents became unemployed so these children went to drastic measures and went to the streets to give there side of the story so there dad’s can mother’s can work again.  All this happened in north Oklahoma “Ever Since daddy stopped working he’s been crying in his room trying to buy me more toys all I want is my daddy to be happy”

This picture was taken in 1932.  These children’s parents lost all there jobs and it’s making the family’s really impatient for a job and its making it really hard for them to support there family.  The families are so desperate for a job that their children are going on strike for them so they can get a job. This issue happened in the state of Philadelphia “My daddy had a good job and bought me toys and kept my mommy happy but now that he has no job it’s hard for him to buy me anything and mommy’s always mad at him now I want daddy to make both of us happy again”

 

1937 these children had no shoes probably no shelter and from the looks of it hardly any clothes.  The Dust Bowl caused their parents to move and there family was slowly dying off.  “Mom and Dad moved from our old house and now we moved to live inside a tent and me and my brother forgot most of clothes and have no shoes and our feet hurt from the dirt and hotness of the sun”.  This family and more suffered this tragic life style at the panhandle of texas.

These are farmer’s children struggling to eat their meal for the day.  They might have food today but it becomes a challenge to find food for the day ahead of them.  This family lives on the border of Kansas where the Dust Bowl hit the hardest and the result was lost of jobs and the crops so the food became a major struggle. “Momma and Daddy almost cant find food and my brother and sisters always argue for the last piece of chicken can you help us feed our stomaches”

The children in the 1930’s there parents that were effected of the great depression didn’t have enough money to buy them new clothes as you can see in this photo that there clothes look ripped and old and dirty and probably don’t have enough money to pay for the water bill as you can see there dirty and they look cut up “its hot and I need some new clothes cause there worn out and mommy and daddy cant buy new ones cause they lost there jobs pawese spare a dime”