Describes the events leading to the October 29, 1929, stock market crash resulting in a financial loss to thousands of investors and ushering in the Great Depression.
Content Note
Black day -- Roaring twenties -- Business of America -- Gambling on the stock market -- From prosperity to peril -- Panic begins -- Bleak week -- Slow slide into depression -- Timeline -- On the web -- Glossary -- Source notes -- Select bibliography -- Index -- About the author/Image credits.