HISTORY 40A Lecture 4: H40C Week 4 Study Guide.doc
21 Jan 2014
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The great depression and the new deal, 1929 1939 (4/23) : the changing modes of production and consumption; wealth and poverty. : the growth of federal government; rise of us power in world. Specific topics of this week: the 1930s: m: people: the prosperity of the 1920s was shattered by the dust bowl and the great. Section assignment: the visual arts: people on the move. This period saw two major migrations of people: the great migration of. African americans from the rural south to northern cities, and the dust bowl migration that brought large numbers of rural southern whites into california. Today we will examine how the visual arts contribute to our understanding of migration experiences. Study the visual material on websites related to the two migrations: 1. America"s best-known african american artist (work recently installed in the white house). Watch an introduction at http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=5ym3miwjfp4: then go to the phillips museum website and click on experience : http://www. phillipscollection. org/migration_series/flash/experience. cfm, 2.
