Examples of Hoovervilles in the following topics:
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- Homelessness exploded during the Great Depression resulting in the massive outgrowth of shanty towns, called in that period ‘Hoovervilles'.
- "Hooverville" was the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression.
- Generally, however, Hoovervilles were tolerated or ignored out of necessity.
- Most of the residents of the Hoovervilles, unable to find work, relied on public charities or begged for food.
- Notable Hoovervilles were in Central Park and Riverside Park in New York City, where scores of homeless families camped out.
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- These became known as "Hoovervilles," a term coined by Democratic
National Committee publicity chief Charles Michelson to slander the name of Republican
President Herbert Hoover, whose policies many people blamed for the stock market
crash and ensuing Depression.
- Hoovervilles
arose in many public areas, including well known locations such as Central Park
in New York City, where scores of homeless
families camped out at the park’s Great Lawn, as well as New York’s Riverside
Park.
- Local authorities did not officially recognize these Hoovervilles and
occasionally removed occupants for trespassing on private lands, although they
were frequently tolerated or ignored out of necessity.
- After 1940, the economy recovered, unemployment fell, and shanty eradication
programs destroyed all of the remaining Hoovervilles.
- Makeshift housing of the type found in shanty towns that sprung up during the Depression, named Hoovervilles to place blame on President Herbert Hoover, in an alley in the Manhattan borough of New York City in 1935.
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- As the Depression
deepened, vast numbers of families were unable to pay rent and were evicted
from their homes to stay in “Hoovervilles,” the slang term for shantytowns that
were contemptuously named after President Herbert Hoover ,
whose policies were considered to blame for the Depression.
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- Most of the Bonus Army camped in a Hooverville on the Anacostia Flats, a swampy, muddy area across the Anacostia River from the federal core of Washington D.C.
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- Tens of thousands of Americans found themselves homeless and began congregating in the numerous Hoovervilles (also known as shanty towns or tent cities) that began to appear across the country.
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- As the Depression deepened, vast
numbers of families were unable to pay rent and were evicted from their homes
to stay in “Hoovervilles,” the slang term for shantytowns that were
contemptuously named after President Herbert Hoover ,
whose policies were considered to blame for the Depression.