![]() ![]() ![]() Hoovervilles cropped up outside most major American cities and were visible reminders of the daily suffering and despair that characterized the Depression. ![]() Depression-era shantytowns, “Hoovervilles” were named after President Hoover in order to disparage the man whom millions believed had not done enough-or anything-to help them (famously, Hoover wrote this response to a cry for federal relief, though he did not send all of it: “This nation did not grow great from feeding upon the malignant pessimist or calamity mongers or weeping men, and prosperity for all our people will not be restored by the voluble wailings of word-sobbers nor by any legislative legerdemain proposed by theorists ” he also said in his 1930 State of the Union that “Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury”). In Bud, Not BuddyBud and Bugs find a Hooverville and spend the night there before preparing to ride the rails. ![]()
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