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Article Selection

Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Article title
Hooverville

Article Evaluation
This article has a lot of good information on the diversity of Hooverville structures. It goes into detail how different communities were set up, who lived in them, and how long they lasted. It also described different references to these Hoovervilles in popular culture.

Sources
"Hoovervilles and Homelessness" https://depts.washington.edu/depress/hooverville.shtml
"Hoovervilles" https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/hoovervilles
"Life in Hooverville- Photos of inside the shanty towns of the Great Depression" https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/04/11/life-in-hooverville-photos-of-inside-the-shanty-towns-of-the-great-depression/?chrome=1&A1c=1

Article title
Soup kitchen

Article Evaluation
This article has some interesting information about the rise of American soup kitchens in the 1930s, which is the time period I'm researching. It discusses how the Great Depression increased the need for soup kitchens as many people could not afford food. The article also discusses how the modern soup kitchen originated in the 1790s and how soup kitchens in the 21st century operate.

Sources
"Soup Kitchens" https://www.ssa.gov/history/acoffee.html
"Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America" https://archive.org/details/citizenhobohowce00depa/page/22/mode/2up

Article title
Great Depression in the United States

Article Evaluation
This article has a lot of good information on the economic perspective of the Great Depression. It lays out the causes of the Depression as well as the political responses of both the Hoover and Roosevelt Administrations. However, I do think this article would benefit from explaining the social response to the Depression.

Sources
"Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Workers Collection" https://www.loc.gov/collections/todd-and-sonkin-migrant-workers-from-1940-to-1941/about-this-collection/

Article title
Discrimination against homeless people

Article Evaluation
This article is very short and has many issues. There is not much information on anti-homelessness legislation or social stigma against people who are homeless. I also think that a section on the history of homelessness and people's attitudes towards it throughout history would be helpful.

Sources
"Criminalizing Crisis: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities." https://web.archive.org/web/20170914033003/https://www.nlchp.org/documents/Criminalizing_Crisis
"The ACLU Says There's a War Against Unhoused People in Los Angeles" https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/aclu-war-against-unhoused-homeless-people-la