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A chronicle of perseverance and hope in the face of economic crises and political change Charleston and the Great Depression tells many stories of the city during the 1930s―an era of tremendous want, hope, and change―through a collection of forty annotated primary documents. Included are letters, personal accounts, organizational reports, meeting minutes, speeches, photographs, oral history excerpts, and trial transcripts. Together they reveal the various ways in which ordinary lowcountry residents―largely excluded from formal politics―responded to the era's economic and social crises and made for themselves a "New Deal." Arranged in chronological order, the documents include Mayor Burnet R. Maybank's 1931 inaugural address, in which the thirty-two-year-old merchant-turned-politician warned grimly of worsening hardship; the trial testimony of Benjamin Rivers, an African American worker executed by the state after being convicted of murdering a Charleston police officer; horror writer H. P. Lovecraft's detailed walking tour of the city, in which the visiting New Englander painted a fascinating but romanticized portrait of Charleston that somehow managed to overlook the adversities

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Author

Kieran Walsh Taylor

Publisher

The University of South Carolina Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611178654

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities