The Great Depression was a terrifying time in the United States of America. Many farmers were affected, Alabamians’ lives were reshaped differently. Although the United States of America stock market crash of October 29th, 1929 is often seen as the beginning of the Great Depression, in Alabama and elsewhere, the crash exacerbated an already existing decline in agriculture that begun much earlier in the decade and spread statewide to cities and industries thereafter. Depression’s impact on Alabama lasted throughout the 1930s and, for some Alabamians, into the early 1940s, which was longer than the nation as a whole. During those times, many farm families lived on the brink of starvation and bankruptcy. Unfortunately, the Great Depression wasn’t
