The Greenfield Council of the Unemployed was one town’s response to the economic and social crisis of the Great Depression (1929-1939). Male council members volunteered their labor on projects such as cutting firewood to be distributed to Greenfield, Massachusetts, citizens in need of home heating fuel. Female council members made clothing for the unemployed. The council also coordinated the collection and distribution of donated goods to those in need.
Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette. “Local Council of Unemployed Has 230 Members.” January 30, 1933. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l06-010/. Accessed on November 21, 2024.
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