Johnson / Growing up during the Great Depression
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Interviewer: Do you remember the Great Depression? Johnson: Yeah. My formative years, all my formative years—I remember quite a bit of it. I remember how people had to struggle. You know, fifty cents a day for labor if you could get it and it was not an eight to five affair. It was, as they referred to it, a can-see to can’t-see. Dawn to dusk. Of course, in the absence of equipment and machinery, it was manual labor. I remember all the kind of hardships that people had to endure because of the Depression. The migrations people had to go because of the farmland, this sort of thing.
| Interview | Interview with James E. Johnson |
| Subjects | Family › Childhood Experiences |
| Migration › Causes of Migration | |
| Work › Agricultural Work | |
| Work › Agricultural Work › Agricultural Work and Wage Labor | |
| Oral Tradition › Oral Tradition of the Great Depression | |
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| Interview date | 2015-07-21 |
| Interview source | CRBB Summer 2015 |
| Interviewees | Johnson, James E. |
| Interviewers | Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés |
| Bynum, Katherine | |
| Duration | 00:01:11 |
| Citation | "Growing up during the Great Depression ," from James E. Johnson oral history interview with Moisés Acuña-Gurrola and Katherine Bynum, July 21, 2015, Prairie View, TX , Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database, https://crbb.tcu.edu/clips/687/the-great-depression, accessed November 11, 2025 |
