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Migrant workers from Arkansas displaced by crop failures and dust.
Arkies
October 29, 1929. Stock Market crashed.
Black Tuesday
Shanty-towns in the fields near irrigation ditches.
Ditch Bank Camps
A long period without precipitation.
Drought
1930's frequent dust storms and loss of agricultural income.
Dust Bowl
Huge clouds of dirt caused by a combination of drought.
Dust Storm
First Lady of the 1933 -1945 reformer and humanitarian.
Eleanor Roosevelt
To remove people from someplace against their will.
Evict
(FSA) Tasked with improving the rural poor.
Farm Security
Administration
Provided work for unemployed artists, actors.
Federal Arts Project
(FDR) President with many New Deal programs.
Franklin D Roosevelt
John Steinbeck novel Okla. family moved to Cal.
The Grapes of Wrath
(l929-1941) nearly 25% of the US was unemployed.
Great Depression
Experimental planned town surrounded by agriculture
Greenbelt Towns
South after the Civil War segregated people by race.
Jim Crow Laws
Unemployed people are given work by the government.
Jobs Programs
The research arm of the Congress.
Library of Congress
An agricultural laborer moves from place to place.
Migrant Worker
Newspaper columns written by Eleanor Roosevelt.
My Day Daily
Created by FDR to help America out of the Great Depression
New Deal
To educate on the major issues of World War II
Office of War
Information
Migrant workers from Oklahoma displaced by crop failures and dust.
Okies
Information designed to promote or refute a cause or idea.
Propaganda
To improve land-use practices and misuse.
Resettlement
Administration
Having to do with farming, a way of life outside the city.
Rural