Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images From bread lines to hunger marches: street photography in the 1930s
1. Hunger marchers in Bedfordshire, February 1934; they are en route to a mass protest in London’s Hyde Park against the era’s high rates of unemployment. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images
2. A group of British women on a hunger march in 1930. Their banner reads ‘Fighting for Bread and Beans’ Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty Images
3. A New York City bread line in 1931. Many Americans endured periods in which they could not afford to eat during the Great Depression Photograph: Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images
4. The Jarrow marchers pass through the village of Lavendon, near Bedford, in October 1936. Two hundred men walked the 291 miles from Tyneside to London to deliver a petition for jobs to the government Photograph: Getty Images
5.Soup is distributed to British hunger marchers. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images
6. Spanish citizens queue for bread handouts in Madrid 1933. Photograph: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images
7. A group of unemployed men march to London in 1932 to protest against the consequences of the economic crisis on working-class communities
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