Hi, I'm Shannon, the podcast producer here at C-SPAN, and this week on the Lectures and History podcast, we're discussing the Great Depression.

Black Tuesday, also known as the crash of 29 or the Wall Street crash of 1929, is seen as the catalyst for the decade-long Great Depression.

It is still seen as the most devastating stock market crash in U.S. history.

Investors traded more than 16 million shares on the stock market that day.

Next, Indiana University History Professor Carolina Ortega

discusses the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal,

and the impact that the economic crash had on various populations, including Mexican Americans.

More after this.

So I'm not going to play the full music video like I usually do, but we're going to watch a couple minutes of Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl refugee you read about the Great Depression for today you

learned about the Dust Bowl and so this was actually part of a longer

album called Dust Bowl Ballad which was released in 1940 and I well I was

looking into it apparently it's conceived as the first conceptual album because it had to do with one theme the dust bowl so we're going to listen to a few minutes of it you're going to see images of the dust bowl and the Great Depression as the lyrics are on screen. I'm a dust bowl refugee, just a dust bowl refugee.

From that dust bowl to the peach bowl

Now that peach fuzz is killing me

Cross the mountains to the sea

Come the wife and kids and me

It's a hot old dusty highway for a dustable refugee.

Heart it's always been that way here today and on our way down that mountain cross the desert,

just a dustbowl refugee. We are ramblers, so they say, we are only here today.

Then we travel with the seasons.

We're the dust-bo refugees from the Southland.

All right.

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