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An 18-year-old Okie mother, pictured holding her child, stranded penniless in the Imperial Valley, 1937 Rear view of an Okie's car, passing through Amarillo, heading west, 1941 In the mid-1930s, during the Dust Bowl era, large numbers of farmers fleeing ecological disaster and the Great Depression migrated from the Great Plains and Southwest ...
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The plight of the Okies and a description of Weedpatch Camp were chronicled by novelist John Steinbeck in his book The Grapes of Wrath.The book is dedicated to camp administrator Collins who was the model for the character called Jim Rawley. [9] The book was instantly successful and sold over 430,000 copies in a year. [10]
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 ...
On September 18, the cotton strikes were organized by a group of seventy-eight men and women who "concluded that it took the average picker 10 hours to harvest 300 pounds. Planters offered 40 cents a hundredweight – that was not enough to buy enough food and gas to get to the next job. The workers demanded a dollar per hundredweight."
For design inspiration, we put together 60 free, printable pumpkin carving stencils. With so many to choose from, there’s a stencil to fit every carver’s vision.
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