From the Turkic name TemÃ¼r meaning iron. Timur, also known as Tamerlane (from Persian ØªÛÙÙØ± ÙÙÚ¯ (Timur e Lang) meaning Timur the  lame), was a 14th-century Turkic leader who conquered large areas of Western Asia.
Many books and reports have been written about The Great Depression yet there is very little known about African-American life during the depression. Our intent is to gather information on the historical, economic, and social impact of the Great Depression on the African-American community.any books and reports have been written about The Great Depression yet there is very little known about African-American life during the depression. Our intent is to gather information on the historical, economic, and social impact of the Great Depression on the African-American community.
Such programs helped only a fraction of the state's poor and landless, but to the state's rural populationâits African American and white farmers and sharecroppersâfor whom the federal government had been a distant entity, the New Deal became a source of recovery they could see in their own communities.