tjared
Hoovervilles were shanty towns built by migrant workers during the Great Depression.
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Hoovervilles
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ltred12
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They were called after President Hoover because many people blamed him for the country's economic collapse. Charles Michelson, publicity chief of the Democratic National Committee, invented the term 'Hoovervilles.'
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alex87ander
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ACTUALLY, SOME WERE CONSTRUCTED BY GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES.MY 14 YEAR OLD BROTHER RAN AWAY AND STAYED IN ONE IN ARIZONA FOR SOME 6 MONTHS IN 1936. HE DID NOT REPORT ANY DIFFICULTY WITH THE MEN AND SAID THEY CONCEALED HIM FROM OFFICIALS WHO INSPECTED THE CAMP.
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alex87ander
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ACTUALLY, SOME WERE CONSTRUCTED BY GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES.MY 14 YEAR OLD BROTHER RAN AWAY AND STAYED IN ONE IN ARIZONA FOR SOME 6 MONTHS IN 1936. HE DID NOT REPORT ANY DIFFICULTY WITH THE MEN AND SAID THEY CONCEALED HIM FROM OFFICIALS WHO INSPECTED THE CAMP.
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bokonon
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your brother was in the Civil Conservation Corp.
hoovervilles were the shantytowns.
sorrry.