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2. Okie - Wikipedia

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   Frank Bergon's 2011 novel Jesse's Ghost draws attention to today's sons and daughters of the California Okies portrayed in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Kristin Hannah's 2021 novel The Four Winds portrays the life, struggle and survival of a single mother and her two children during the days following the Great depression (1929) and Dust Bowls.

3. Column: 'Okie' was a California slur for white people. Why it ...

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   Teri O'Rourke of Palm Desert, whose grandparents left Oklahoma in the 1930s, said my use of “Okie” brought back memories of “the people in the '50s and '60s who thought Okies were stupid and ...

4. White Americans in California - Wikipedia

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   Although this is probably an overestimation due to flaws in statistical methods, it shows the significant white predominance in California by the early 20th century. In the 1930s, about 350,000 mostly White migrants, known as Okies, came to California from the rural Great Plains states and the surrounding area. Their descendants may make up as ...

5. Arvin Federal Government Camp - Wikipedia

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   The camp is significant in the history of California for the migration of people escaping the Dust Bowl. During the 1930s around 400,000 people without jobs migrated from their homes to find a better life in California. These migrants were known by the derogatory term of Okie and were the subject of discrimination from the local population. [5 ...

6. Edwards v. California - Wikipedia

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   The so-called anti-Okie law made it a misdemeanor to bring into California "any indigent person who is not a resident of the State, knowing him to be an indigent person." Edwards was a Californian who had driven to Texas and returned with his unemployed brother-in-law. He was tried, convicted and given a six-month suspended sentence.

7. Will Rogers phenomenon - Wikipedia

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   The Will Rogers phenomenon, also rarely called the Okie paradox, [1] is when moving an observation from one group to another increases the average of both groups. It is named after a joke attributed to the comedian Will Rogers about Dust Bowl migration during the Great Depression : [ 2 ]

8. Abhishek Sharma smashes 79 runs as India beats England by 7 ...

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   Abhishek Sharma scored a 20-ball half-century as India beat England by seven wickets Wednesday in the first T20 of their five-match series. India's opener smacked five fours and eight sixes ...

9. California agricultural strikes of 1933 - Wikipedia

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   The California agricultural strikes of 1933 were a series of strikes by mostly Mexican and Filipino agricultural workers throughout the San Joaquin Valley. More than 47,500 workers were involved in the wave of approximately 30 strikes from 1931 to 1941.