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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 ...
The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters. University of Nevada Press, 1993. ISBN 0-87417-225-X; Igler, David; Clark Davis. The Human Tradition in California. Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. ISBN 0-8420-5027-2; La Chapelle, Peter. Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California ...
The New York Times used “Okie” as a crossword puzzle answer (to the clue "Resident of the 46th state") just last week. On the other hand, the term has slowly disappeared from this newspaper.
These displaced individuals, often referred to as "Okies," a term derived from the large number of migrants from Oklahoma, became part of a larger group of itinerant agricultural workers. Many of them ended up on the West Coast, particularly in California, where they hoped to find work in the state's rich agricultural sector.
Article II, in particular, details the dire consequences of poor sanitation of Hoovervilles, or "squatter camps" as Steinbeck refers to the shantytowns in the California valley. One of the three families he writes about had recently suffered the loss of one child; a four-year-old boy had been sick, poorly nourished and appeared feverish, then ...
The lower-security West Facility was repurposed as part of the prison in 1954.
Florence Owens Thompson (born Florence Leona Christie; September 1, 1903 – September 16, 1983) was an American woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression.
Third quarter: Colorado 28, Oklahoma State 0. Colorado snapped out of its offensive funk by scoring on the first possession of the second half, extending its lead to 28-0 with 14:03 left in the ...