Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
I. Introduction
II. Meet the Survivors
III. Stories of Survival: Arkansas Farmers during the Great Depression
Chapter 1: Earliest Memories of the Great Depression
Chapter 2: Sharecropping in Arkansas
Chapter 3: Income Sources for Buying Food, Seed, and Other Items
Chapter 4: Crops and Gardens and How They Were Worked
Chapter 5: Typical Chores around the Farm
Chapter 6: Preserving Milk, Making Butter and Buttermilk
Chapter 7: Hog Killing: A Special Time of Year
Chapter 8: Making Molasses, Peanut Butter, and Such
Chapter 9: Meeting and Taking Care of Hoboes
Chapter 10: Making Our Own Clothes, Going Barefooted
Chapter 11: How We Washed Our Clothes
Chapter 12: Family Bathing Routines
Chapter 13: Did We Know We Were Poor?
Chapter 14: Transportation—How We Got Around
Chapter 15: School Memories
Chapter 16: How Did We Entertain Ourselves?
Chapter 17: Courtship and Marriage
Chapter 18: Medical Care
Chapter 19: Home Remedies
Chapter 20: The Drought of 1930, Other Weather Stories
Chapter 21: Sources of News, Listening to Radio
Chapter 22: Christmas Memories
Chapter 23: Spiritual Life and Good Neighbors
Chapter 24: The Most Serious Problems That Were Faced
Chapter 25: Worst Memories
Chapter 26: Effects of the Agricultural Adjustment Act
Chapter 27: Racism during the Depression Era
Chapter 28: Best Memories of the Depression
Chapter 29: Funniest Memories
Chapter 30: Other Memories
Chapter 31: Survival Stories Our Young People Need to Hear
IV. Epilogue
V. Appendix
Notes