One way in which <span>unemployment and homelessness were connected to laughter and entertainment in the 1930s is that because people's lives were so miserable due to the Great Depression, they often sought more forms of entertainment wherever they could find it--in order to take their minds of their problems. </span>
The American Colonization Society (ACS) was formed in 1817 to send free African-Americans to Africa as an alternative to emancipation in the United States.
