"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime"
Life Histories

Read about people who lived during the Great Depression by choosing from the life histories below. These life histories are from American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940 in the American Memory collections, the Library of Congress. After you have read several life histories carefully, answer the questions on Reading Oral Histories.

For more life histories, search the American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940

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