O Mice and Men

Some resources our library has for Mr. Schaffer's assignment relating to the period leading up to the 1930s:

• the geography, topography, history, and agriculture of California’s Salinas River Valley
• migrant workers in North America: Cesar Chavez Immigration and Racism in Canada
• the Great Depression
• the Great Migration (of blacks from the south) from 1890s to well into the 20^th century
• life for the black community in 1930s California, including Jim Crow laws
• the dust bowl
• the life and work of John Steinbeck
• the role of women in American society in the 1930s
• life for those with mental disabilities in the U.S. in the 1930s
• Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal

Posted in: 1930s,black history,Great Depression,Steinbeck,women