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Americas Own Refugees The Story Behind the Grapes of Wrath.
Image of Migrant laborers with baskets of peas waiting to be paid for their days labor.
On the Cause of the 1930s Dust Bowl
A description of what the Dust Bowl was and why it was so harmful.
Oklahoma Dust Bowl Refugees. San Fernando, California
Photo of Oklahoma refugees packed up in San Fernando, CA
Abandoned farm in the dust bowl area. Oklahoma
A photo of an abandoned house in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl time period on the Library of Congress website.
Small Farms, Externalities, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
An analysis of the 1930's Dust Bowl, severe drought, and solutions.
Oklahoman, refugee to California from depression, drought, and dust
Rear view of man, standing with another man, at entrance to open-air grocery store(?), Shafter, California.
Farming
Young men deciding what to do with their futures and realizing that farming is a life-long sentence.
Cotton pickers, Arkansas
Cotton pickers on the Alexander Plantation at 6:30 a.m., waiting for the workday to start
