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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Inspected Title: ATLANTA, THE DEPRESSION, AND THE NEW DEAL (SOUTH, URBAN, GEORGIA) Abstract: During the prosperous 1920s Atlanta's leaders, like those in cities across the nation, envisioned unlimited growth for their city, the business capital of the South. When the stock market crash signaled the start of the Depression in late 1929, the city's leaders responded by optimistically predicting rapid recovery. During the Hoover years conditions worsened, and thousands of citizens, many already poor before the Depression, suffered the loss of jobs and did without basic necessities. Local and state governments which had suffered revenue shortages through the late 1920s found themselves in desperate fiscal condition and did little to help the unemployed. Local private charities attempted to expand their services but lacked the resources necessary to provide aid to thousands of needy Atlantans. Relief arrived in March 1933 with the beginning of significant federal aid under the New Deal. For the rest of the decade New Deal programs provided relief, bolstered the economy, and constructed useful facilities in Atlanta as they did in cities throughout the nation. |
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