Migrant Mother - How a Photograph Defined the Great Depression

Informationen zum Autor Noted historian and award-winning author Don Nardo has written many books for young people about American history. Nardo lives with his wife, Christine, in Massachusetts. Klappentext In the 1930s! photographer Dorothea Lange traveled the American West documenting the experiences of those devastated by the Great Depression. She wanted to use the power of the image to effect political change! but even she could hardly have expected the effect that a simple portrait of a worn-looking woman and her children would have on history. This image! taken at a migrant workers camp in Nipomo! California! would eventually come to be seen as the very symbol of the Depression. The photograph helped reveal the true cost of the disaster on human lives and shocked the U.S. government into providing relief for the millions of other families devastated by the Depression.

Product details

• Authors: Don Nardo
• Publisher: Capstone Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 10 to 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9780756543976
• ISBN: 978-0-7565-4397-6
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 241 mm x 267 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Captured History; Captured History
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools