greggsphoto / Shutterstock.com
The New York Stock Exchange crashed on Oct. 24, 1929, a day that’s come to be known as Black Thursday. It was the first of many financial calamities that created the most notorious period of economic depression in American history — the Great Depression. For most of the 1930s, Americans dealt with a soaring unemployment rate that peaked at nearly 25% and economic conditions that made prices…
