Hoovervilles were shanty towns built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President...
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Tacoma, Washington (section Hooverville)
depression. Tacoma's Hooverville grew in 1924 as the homeless community settled on the waterfront. In 1927, Tacoma's Hooverville was coined "Hollywood"...
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JumpStart Adventures 5th Grade: Jo Hammet, Kid Detective (section The Hooverville Museum of Art and Geography)
Throughout the course of the game, which is set in the fictional city of Hooverville, the user must (while playing the role of female fifth grade detective...
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Manhattan"/"Evolution of the Daleks" as Solomon, the leader of the shanty town Hooverville. He headed the cast of Michele Soavi's The Church (1989) as Father Gus...
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1987. It contains their first five UK hit singles: "Forgotten Town", "Hooverville", "When the Fingers Point", "Ideal World" and "Born Again". AllMusic...
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discuss their lack of confidence in him. The Doctor and Martha return to Hooverville, which is attacked by the Daleks. Although Solomon is killed, Dalek Sec...
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They find a newspaper article about recent disappearances and travel to Hooverville, a tent city in Central Park. There they meet Solomon, the leader, who...
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believing he is her dog, named Sandy. Later, Annie and Sandy stumble upon a Hooverville, a shanty town full of formerly well-off people suddenly rendered homeless...
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enforcement authorities are allied with the growers. At the first migrant Hooverville camp the Joads stop at, Casy is arrested for knocking down a deputy sheriff...
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into town. Hooverville arose during the Depression, leading to Seattle's growing homeless population. Stationed outside Seattle, the Hooverville housed thousands...
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Hoover's opponents developed defamatory epithets to discredit him, such as "Hooverville" (the shanty towns and homeless encampments), "Hoover leather" (cardboard...
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themselves homeless, and began congregating in shanty towns – dubbed "Hoovervilles" – that began to appear across the country. In response, President Hoover...
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Gray, Christopher (August 29, 1993). "Streetscapes: Central Park's 'Hooverville'; Life Along 'Depression Street'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331...
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was an article that he wrote for The New Republic, "Wasting Away in Hooverville". Chait appears in The Rivalry, a 2007 HBO documentary about the history...
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dog on a better leash and give it a license. Then Annie encounters a Hooverville, where the homeless population living there complains about former president...
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Bonus Army (Bonus Expeditionary Force or BEF) camped in a form of a "Hooverville" on the Anacostia Flats (now Section C of Anacostia Park), a swampy,...
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Steinbeck to personally interview multiple families in the impoverished Hoovervilles of the San Joaquin Valley. As Steinbeck visited the slums that hugged...
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of Bud's journey across the state. Bud spends an evening in Flint's Hooverville, a hobo encampment, where he comments on the mixture of races; the author...
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he and artist Jade Townsend had produced called Art Basel Miami Beach Hooverville, depicting an art world shantytown with artists, dealers, critics and...
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gets lost in a Bonus Army riot. Following harmonica music to a local Hooverville, he joins the Schofields, an extended family of dispossessed Kansas farmers...
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large numbers during both the California Gold Rush and World War II. Hoovervilles were homeless camps built across the country during the Great Depression...
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Related Bill of Rights Encampment sweeps Housing insecurity LGBTQ youth Hooverville Squatting Veterans Women Mental health Tent cities Relocation programs...
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Paul property, Fourth Avenue North, Saint Petersburg, Florida Skid row Hooverville "The court case that forced OC to stop ignoring its homeless". 11 September...
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and crappie. The south area is located between the town of Conchas and Hooverville. Visitors can access the lake via New Mexico State Road 104, at mile...
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shantytowns, or "Hoovervilles" (named after Herbert Hoover, the president in office when the Depression began). These "Hoovervilles" were self-made communities...
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The same day, President Obama declared New Jersey a disaster area. A Hooverville for the unemployed on the outskirts of Paterson, 1937 Downtown, Paterson...
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Guatemala. During the 1930s Great Depression, shanty towns nicknamed Hoovervilles sprang up across the United States. Following the Great Depression, squatters...
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short squeeze Grassroots movement Green Feather Movement Guy Fawkes mask Hooverville Income inequality in the United States List of countries by distribution...
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Related Bill of Rights Encampment sweeps Housing insecurity LGBTQ youth Hooverville Squatting Veterans Women Mental health Tent cities Relocation programs...
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setting of the American TV series Petticoat Junction and Green Acres Hooverville, an area where homeless people generally lived during the Great Depression...
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