Dust Bowl migrants

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Dust Bowl migrants were impoverished farmers and their families who fled the drought- and dust-stricken Great Plains in the 1930s, seeking work and survival in places like California during the Great Depression.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical population group
internal migrants in the United States
activeInTimePeriod 1930s
Great Depression
affectedBy Dust Bowl
Great Depression
dust storms
severe drought
soil erosion
alsoCalled Arkies
Okies
contributedTo California agricultural labor force
demographic rural families
white Americans
documentedBy Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration photographers
Walker Evans
economicStatus impoverished
experienced discrimination
exploitative labor conditions
poverty
unemployment
livedIn makeshift camps
migrant labor camps
shantytowns
locatedIn Great Plains
migratedTo Arizona
California
linked to: California (state)

Central Valley of California
linked to: Central Valley

Oregon
San Joaquin Valley
Washington (state)
linked to: Washington
occupation sharecroppers
small-scale farmers
tenant farmers
originatedFrom Colorado
Kansas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
partOf history of the Great Depression in the United States
portrayedBy John Steinbeck
portrayedIn The Grapes of Wrath
sought agricultural work
economic survival
seasonal farm labor
supportedBy Farm Security Administration
traveledBy automobile
truck
wagon
usedRoute U.S. Route 66

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Do Re Mi subject Dust Bowl migrants
Noah Joad associatedWithTheme Great Depression migration
linked to: Dust Bowl migrants
Al Joad settingEvent Dust Bowl migration
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Connie Rivers associatedWithEvent Dust Bowl migration
linked to: Dust Bowl migrants
Oklahoma (fictional setting) influencesPerceptionOf Dust Bowl migration
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Winfield Joad associatedEvent Dust Bowl migration
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Mother Road associatedWith Dust Bowl migration
linked to: Dust Bowl migrants
Will Rogers Highway associatedWith Great Depression migration
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Moses Pray setting Great Depression-era American Midwest
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California is a Garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see; but believe it or not, you won’t find it so hot if you ain’t got the do re mi. culturalContext Dust Bowl migration
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Talking Dust Bowl describes Dust Bowl refugees
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Bound for Glory (1976 film) portrays Dust Bowl migration
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Cities in Flight influencedBy The Flying Cities of the Okies (historical Dust Bowl migration)
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Bakersfield country scene influencedBy Dust Bowl migrant communities
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Drought Refugees historicalContext Dust Bowl migration
linked to: Dust Bowl migrants