The 1940 census found that 31% of dwellings did not have running water, 32% lacked an indoor toilet, and 39% did not have a bathtub or shower.
Robert Cohen, ed., Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 37.
Robert Cohen, ed., Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 37.
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