Hooverville

A "Hooverville" is the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and widely blamed for it. The term was coined by Charles Michelson, publicity chief of the Democratic National Committee . There were hundreds of Hoovervilles across the country during the 1930s and hundreds of thousands of people lived in these slums.

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