Images from HIUS 202

Job Seekers in Detroit, 1930, Unemployment ravaged working and middle class Americans, and male breadwinners spent long hours and weeks trying to find work. Waiting in endless lines like this one was in Detroit not uncommon for job-seeking Americans. Even with the creation of job works programs in the mid-1930s, employment was hard to come by even for the most qualified of workers. Source: Detroit Free Press.

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