October 29: “Black Tuesday”

On 29 October 1929, also known as “Black Tuesday,” the stock market crashed putting the United States into the worst economic depression it had ever seen. Prices began to plummet in a hurry. On this day, the stock market lost 14 billion dollars. In a last ditch effort to keep the stock market alive, many larger companies began to buy millions of dollars in stocks to show their confidence in a market that was on its way to rock bottom. The efforts of the Rockefeller family and other people like them was futile and the United States was left with the worst economic crises it had ever been faced with.

The Great Depression left millions of Americans without work and homeless. With banks loaning many people money to invest in the stock market, they were forced to close. Unemployment was at a high and people were unable to put a meal on the table for their families. By 1933, nearly four years after the stock market crash, unemployment was at 24.9%. The economic situation not only affected the United States economy, but also hurt international trade. Increased tariffs on exports were added decreasing international trade tremendously.

With the country in chaos, soup lines and bread lines began to show up at nearly every corner. People began selling apples for very low prices to avoid panhandling. The Great Depression was a time the United States wish they could forget for its brutality on the average American.

–Ahmad Jawad

Photo Caption: People who could afford apples would buy them from the individuals selling them as a way to help them out.
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Meet the Author: Ahmad Jawad

This is my first semester at Schoolcraft College. I attended the University of Detroit Mercy last year. I play soccer on the men’s team at Schoolcraft. Outside of soccer I enjoy spending time with my friends and family.

8 Responses

  1. Haley Hilt says:

    “Black Tuesday” may have been the true date where people came to be aware of the stock market crashing, but most people do not realize that crash started happening in the early month of September. Richard Lancaster wrote an article about the crash of 1929, but made in clear that in September the market lost 40%. Then on “Black Tuesday”, Dow Jones lost around 13%, which made citizens run from their stock’s creating chaos in the market. Then in 1932 the market total lost 89% which is a huge drop in the market altogether.
    Now most people know that the United States has been in a recession but I found an article written by David Rosenberg that claims we are in a modern-day depression. In his article “We Are Living in a Modern-Day Depression”, he makes clear points as why people should see we are in a depression. He started off his article saying that 46 million people are collecting food stamps (survey taken in 2011). Then he goes on to listing other reasons people should see that we are in one do to, wealth destruction, housing bust and unemployment. These are huge factors that he claims have lead us not into a recession but a depression.

    Haley Hilt

  2. Shelby Mann says:

    Black Tuesday marked the beginning of the ten year Great Depression where the market had closed down at 12.8%. The market had lost $14 billion on “Black Tuesday” and lost over $30 billion within two days.16 million trades were traded that day, but the day before was considered “Black Monday” where things began to fall. Investors were trying to get out of the market, that’s where Dow loss 13%.

  3. Jennifer Kuebler says:

    “Black Friday” is the Friday after Thanksgiving and kicks off the Christmas season and shopping. Retailers started pushing the holiday shopping the day after Thanksgiving in the late 19 century/early 20 century. Department stores like Macy’s and Eaton’s sponsored parades the the day after Thanksgiving that would advertise sales and merchandise in stores. These parades would kick off the holiday shopping and became a tradition for stores to delay their Christmas advertising until after Thanksgiving and the parades.
    The term “Black Friday” wasn’t adopted until the 1960’s when it was mentioned in a document by Bonnie Taylor-Black in 1966.
    Many think the term “black” refers to retailers revenue going from red to black, but it actually originated in Philadelphia when taxi/bus drivers and policemen had to handle the busy chaos of city shoppers the day after Thanksgiving.
    Today, “Black Friday” is one of the busiest shopping days of the year and and about 135 million people go out to shop. The average person spends about $400 dollars.

    -Jennifer Kuebler

  4. Anthony Ibrahim says:

    Many things led up to the stock market crashing and “Black Tuesday” happening, it didn’t just happen all of a sudden. on October 29th , 1929, the New York Stock Exchange closed down a whole 12 percent for the second straight day, and that was the begging of the Great Depression. One huge reason there was such panic is because almost everyone that had any sort of money in the bank rushed to the banks to pull out their money that they had left in the bank,and there was such an over rush on money being withdrawn that the banks became bankrupt, and anyone who hadn’t gotten their on time lost all of their money that they had put in the bank. Due to all of this almost everything lost value and people were selling things for way less than they had bought them for originally. Many people suffered poverty, and tried to do anything that they possibly could to survive the harsh economic times. The stock market crashing caused a domino effect, because when one thing would go bad, another would go bad the very next day, and it put our country in a hole that we just could not get out of.

    Anthony Ibrahim

  5. alex mott says:

    It is amazing to think of having absolutely nothing like the people back then. Something i found that i thought was interesting was the term Hoovervilles. These Hoovervilles were basically huge tent cities that seemed endless. They were nicknamed Hoovervilles after the president who was in office at the time. Herbert Hoover was blamed by many for the great depression but I’m not sure how one man could cause such a catastrophe. Suprisingly one of the largest “hoovervilles” was in central park in New york city.

  6. Alex Cook says:

    Black Tuesday was indeed the start of a horrible time period for America. Though tragic “black tuesday” could have been avoided. America was first introduced to credit and they were buying stocks with credit. So when the stock market crashed no one had any means of paying it back.

    • Justin Ghannam says:

      Sounds accurate. The strongly resembles the same way the economy crashed today. Although credit was a much more known concept and not something new America thought was the greatest thing ever. Banks were loaning too much money and the majority of the country using credit cards. The economy today is no where near as bad as it was back then though, nearly a 25% unemployment rate whereas as recent as October the country unemployment rate fell just short of under 8%

  7. Julianne Ayers says:

    The term “black” has been used to describe other disastrous days in financial markets. On Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the market fell precipitously, signaling the start of the Great Depression. The largest one-day drop in stock market history occurred on Black Monday, October 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average had plummeted more than 22%.

    Black Tuesday is now widely considered as the start of the Great Depression, because it signaled a complete loss in confidence in the U.S. financial system.

    The details of Black Tuesday was the inspirational idea behind the term “Black Friday” is that this is the day in which retail stores have enough sales to put themselves “in the black” which is an accounting expression of recording all losses in red and all profits in black. In which the shoppers in turn become the one’s in red, so to speak.

    – Julianne Ayers

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