Dust Bowl migrants

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historical population group internal migrants in the United States

Dust Bowl migrants were impoverished farmers and their families who fled the drought- and dust-stricken Great Plains in the 1930s, seeking work and survival in places like California during the Great Depression.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Dust Bowl migration	5
Great Depression migration	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical population group ⓘ internal migrants in the United States ⓘ
activeInTimePeriod	1930s ⓘ Great Depression NERFINISHED ⓘ
affectedBy	Dust Bowl NERFINISHED ⓘ Great Depression NERFINISHED ⓘ dust storms ⓘ severe drought ⓘ soil erosion ⓘ
alsoCalled	Arkies NERFINISHED ⓘ Okies NERFINISHED ⓘ
contributedTo	California agricultural labor force ⓘ
demographic	rural families ⓘ white Americans ⓘ
documentedBy	Dorothea Lange NERFINISHED ⓘ Farm Security Administration photographers NERFINISHED ⓘ Walker Evans NERFINISHED ⓘ
economicStatus	impoverished ⓘ
experienced	discrimination ⓘ exploitative labor conditions ⓘ poverty ⓘ unemployment ⓘ
livedIn	makeshift camps ⓘ migrant labor camps ⓘ shantytowns ⓘ
locatedIn	Great Plains ⓘ
migratedTo	Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ California NERFINISHED ⓘ Central Valley of California NERFINISHED ⓘ Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ San Joaquin Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington (state) NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	sharecroppers ⓘ small-scale farmers ⓘ tenant farmers ⓘ
originatedFrom	Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	history of the Great Depression in the United States ⓘ
portrayedBy	John Steinbeck NERFINISHED ⓘ
portrayedIn	The Grapes of Wrath NERFINISHED ⓘ
sought	agricultural work ⓘ economic survival ⓘ seasonal farm labor ⓘ
supportedBy	Farm Security Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ
traveledBy	automobile ⓘ truck ⓘ wagon ⓘ
usedRoute	U.S. Route 66 NERFINISHED ⓘ