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The Great Depression: Jobs
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In 1937, the Great Depression, which had begun to show signs of lifting, suddenly deepened. The stock market collapsed again. In less than six months, four million more men and women lost their jobs. They called it the "Roosevelt Recession," the steepest economic decline in American history. Black Americans continued to suffer most — and white southerners wielded such power on Capitol Hill that even Franklin Roosevelt lacked the political will to support a federal law against the savagery of lynching.
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The problems of the Great Depression affected virtually every group of Americans. No group was harder hit than African Americans.... By 1932, approximately half of black Americans were out of work. In some Northern cities, whites called for blacks to be fired from any jobs as long as there were whites out of work. Racial violence again became more common, especially in the South. Lynchings, which had declined to eight in 1932, surged to 28 in 1933.
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The crash of the stock market late in 1929 ushered in the Great Depression when a failing economy gripped the nation. Businesses and banks failed, workers lost their jobs and many families lost their homes. In Arkansas, women struggled to survive and make a life for themselves and their loved ones during this economic disaster.
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While Maguire is immediately likable, expressing a great deal of enthusiasm about having ridden an actual thoroughbred and a profound admiration for the job that jockeys do, it's ... clear why he's a notoriously problematic interview. Dumb, an interviewer can deal with; too smart, you ratchet up the stakes. Maguire is more like inscrutable.
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