Culture and society in the Great Depression No decade in the th century was more terrifying for people throughout the world than the 1930s The traumas of the decade included economic disorder, the rise of totalitarianism, and the coming (or presence) of warThe economic crisis known as the Great Depression actually began in the rural South with a severe crisis in agriculture Approximately 150,000 African Americans left the state of Georgia in the decade of the 19s to escape oppressive economic conditions as well as vigilante violenceWell before the Great Depression of the 1930s smote the land, almost as soon as the Great War concluded in 1918, a severe economic crisis had beset the farmbelt It did not entirely lift until the next world war, more than twenty years later
Great Depression American History Baade
