Human Interest

'The Great Depression that followed was the result of bungling by the Federal Reserve System.' Milton Friedman on the causes of the Depression. 

'The U.S. in the 1930s was a very different place, as the photos show. In terms of per capita income, the U.S. then was poorer than Mexico is today. The Civil Rights movement had not yet occurred, and Jim Crow laws still ruled the South. Women had been voting in national elections for fewer than two decades.'