| Friday, December 19, 2008 |
| The Great Depression...=[. |
1. During the depression, urban black Americans not only experienced job discriminations they also had a hard time finding places to live.
2. To afford the rent, multiple families moved in together.
3. There would often be one family to a room.
4. Many families had a night worker who would occupy a bed in the day that would be rented out at night.
5. People were envied if they had their own bathtub, it meant that they could rent it out for money.
• Why would someone want to sleep in someone elses bed?
• Did this spread diseases more quickly?
• Why did black tenants pay more than the white tenants have to pay?
• Why didn't the union hire black workers?
Exorbitant (adjective) - not coming within the scope of the law(pg#83)
Flagrantly (adjective) - conspicuously offensive (pg#84)
Ostensibly (adverb) - plausible rather than demonstrably true or real (pg#87)
Negro churches played a large role in helping people who were suffering. |
Slid down the rainbow at 1:55 PM  |
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Get me one of these books and I'll be your loyal friend for life (see below for my email address if you're actually considering the idea - not that I'm expecting you to)...
- Dante's Inferno
- Mansfield Park
- Midnight Sun
- Macbeth
- Incarceron
- Northanger Abbey
- Flowers in the Attic
- The Age of Innocence
- Emma
- Cather in the Rye
- Bombs on Aunt Dainty
- The Silver Kiss
- Pride & Prejudice
- Midnight's Choice
- Tuck Everlasting
- 1984
- Wild Blood
- Persuasion
- The Notebook
- Stone from the River
- Light in August
- Sense & Sensibility
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