During the Great Depression, many families left their rural homes and migrated to California in search of work. They left their farms hoping to find new and better work. Although this might of been the dream, it turned out to not be reality. To try to relieve the people of their problems Franklin Roosevelt Administration released The New Deal with hopes of relieving people of there finanical problems.
The nation needed immediate relief for the Depression, so that became Roosevelt's main focus when he took office. One of his main goals was to help the people of the struggling lower class. In order to acheive his goal, The New Deal policy was created. This included many poilcies to help unemployment.
Over 2.5 million farmers left their homes to find work in …show more content…
These photos were suposed to show how the workers were suffering in hopes to get the public's sympathy for them. Lange was great and her job and really captured migrants true feelings of hurt in her pictures. One of her most famous pictures was called "Migrant Mother", which captured a tired looking woman with children resting on her. Orignally she hd took 6 pictures, but "Migrant Mother" captured everything she was looking for. This picture was captured in March of 1936 and one of the makeshift migrants' camp. The picture she captured depicted the mother as a heroic victim doing everything she could to feed and keep her children healthy. Lange's photos were published in the San Francisco News and right away authorities sent food to the entire camp, unfortunally they family had already left the camp. Florence Thompson, the subject of the photo, disagreed with how the picture potrayed her as a poor women. Even though the reason Lange took it was to provide help for them. When Thompson was dying of cancer in 1983 her children used the picture to help raise money for her
The nation needed immediate relief for the Depression, so that became Roosevelt's main focus when he took office. One of his main goals was to help the people of the struggling lower class. In order to acheive his goal, The New Deal policy was created. This included many poilcies to help unemployment.
Over 2.5 million farmers left their homes to find work in …show more content…
These photos were suposed to show how the workers were suffering in hopes to get the public's sympathy for them. Lange was great and her job and really captured migrants true feelings of hurt in her pictures. One of her most famous pictures was called "Migrant Mother", which captured a tired looking woman with children resting on her. Orignally she hd took 6 pictures, but "Migrant Mother" captured everything she was looking for. This picture was captured in March of 1936 and one of the makeshift migrants' camp. The picture she captured depicted the mother as a heroic victim doing everything she could to feed and keep her children healthy. Lange's photos were published in the San Francisco News and right away authorities sent food to the entire camp, unfortunally they family had already left the camp. Florence Thompson, the subject of the photo, disagreed with how the picture potrayed her as a poor women. Even though the reason Lange took it was to provide help for them. When Thompson was dying of cancer in 1983 her children used the picture to help raise money for her