Group 4: Growing up in the South

Shannon McCarty, Cruz Juarez, Jack Haygood, James Vogel, &

Ryan Schafer

Growing up Black in the 1930’s

• African Americans were born into a life of slavery

• They weren’t allowed to marry until after the Civil War

• They were hoboed away from the South

• Were always poor

Jobs

• Some of the jobs involved working on plantations

• The more you worked the more you owed

• Made 3 to 4 dollars a week

• Women worked in growing gardens and worked in the household

• Men worked in the fields and tend to the farm

Living Conditions

• McCullery’s Quarters was a plantations slave quarters

• Lived there until they could afford to move out and buy their own house

• Lived in two room shotgun houses

• Hardly any electricity and no running water

School

• Churches ran the schools

• Most children worked instead of going to school

• If children got good enough grades, their parents would pay extra to send them to a good school

Growing up White in the 1930’s

• Looked down on those who were poor• Majority of the upper class was white• All of the kids went to school• The men worked in businesses while the women

stayed at home caring for the house• Women could work as seamstress• Many families had nice houses and slaves who

worked for them and took care of the farm

Websites

• http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/mculley.html

• http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/girl.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0227