The Joads and 2.5 million other Oklahomans and Midwesterners left the dust bowl for California. Grapes of Wrath chapter 19 “And then the dispossessed were drawn west—from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New ...
Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. As the crops die, the “black blizzards” begin. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blow. When Franklin Roosevelt takes ...
Introduction: "To the farmer in all of us" : agricultural citizenship as racial gatekeeping -- "Settlers galore, but no free land" : white citizenship and the right to land ownership in Factories in ...