hoovervilles

A Hooverville was the popular name for a shanty town, examples of which were foun in many United States communities during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The name Hooverville has also been used to describe the Tent Cities commonly found in America.

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(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Central Park in New York.) In the 1930s, before it was a lush, great lawn, an area of Central Park was home to displaced people's communities known as these, after a famous American

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Provocative story by @georguhperry: The radical way #Eugene addressed #homelessness: Hoovervilles or smart solution?
@DrWhippersnap @MotherJones Hoovervilles? OK
RT @youngpaleblog: @momgoaway Herbert Hoover was widely blamed for the Great Depression, citizens called their shanty towns "Hoovervilles"
@momgoaway Herbert Hoover was widely blamed for the Great Depression, citizens called their shanty towns "Hoovervilles"
@honey89052 @MotherJones absolutely. One day we'll look back on this moment from Hoovervilles and just laugh.
@dontbeabrick “Hoovervilles”
they opened a new seasons in the gulch behind my house where the hoovervilles used to be
RT @jmchisholm: Things to explain to 5 year old at intermission of Annie: orphans, The Great Depression, Hoovervilles, colonialism, alcohol…
Things to explain to 5 year old at intermission of Annie: orphans, The Great Depression, Hoovervilles, colonialism, alcoholism, Don Budge
My 92 year old grandfather is telling me about sharecropping and hoovervilles.
Shades of the Great Depression and Hoovervilles
@LaVanguardia no me esperaba menos del señor #hoover Me ha hecho recordar lo de las #hoovervilles de la #grandepresion bonito nombre!
@ken_wheeler haha official relaunching of Hoovervilles , everyone needs to sow their own food supply
Is this the future? Hoovervilles springing across the world, stand up to the bankers #DebtSlave #Banksters https://t.co/VkIjS5AY9E
Know Hundred Days, fireside chats, bull market, Hoovervilles, soup kitchens, sit down strikes, relief, recovery, reform. #terminology
@JoshCannon99 josh Hoovervilles were made from corrugated iron do you know nothing??
Hoovervilles in the 1930s. Obama villes in 2014. But the residents were Americans then-- but not today.
@chelseagrunwald @kwilman @JTRourke Unless we see hoovervilles/shantytowns popping up again, US poor is better off than poor outside US.
Heffalumps Hellenize Hoovervilles.
@philhester I am genuinely surprised I don't hear about Hoovervilles set up at SDCC every year.
@fmanjoo Confusion with the President? And Hoovervilles and Depression-area hatred of Hoover?
@Doonybug u do the one either about the sacco and vanzetti case or the hoovervilles I do u defo do them
@rwmead shantytowns weren't called Hoovervilles for nothing.

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