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Bookmark or Share- Hoovervilles: Definition & Great Depression ‑ HISTORYHoovervilles, named after unpopular President Herbert Hoover, were encampments of crude dwellings for poor and homeless people during the Great Depression.
- Hoovervilles of Seattle (1931-1941) - HistoryLink.orgSeattle's Hooverville began in October 1931 when an unemployed lumberjack named Jesse Jackson and 20 other men cobbled together shacks on the land. It grew to become "one of the country's largest, longest-lasting, and best-documented Hoovervilles, standing for ten years between 1931 and 1941 …
- Inside the Hoovervilles of the Great Depression, 1931-1940Hooverville was the popular name attributed to shanty towns that sprung up throughout the United States during the Great Depression. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it.
- Hoovervilles: Homeless Camps of the Great Depression - ThoughtCo“Hoovervilles” were hundreds of makeshift homeless encampments built near large cities across the United States during the Great Depression (1929-1933). Dwellings in the Hoovervilles were little more than shacks built of discarded bricks, wood, tin, and cardboard.
- Hoovervilles and Homelessness - Great Depression Project"Hooverville" became a common term for shacktowns and homeless encampments during the Great Depression. There were dozens in the state of Washington, hundreds throughout the country, each testifying to the housing crisis that accompanied the employment crisis of the early 1930s.
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