https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising en-us 2021-01-03 20:22:42 UTC 2024-11-11 21:31:30 UTC hello@padlet.com khalsell https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/1050251475 Drought and depression deepened on the Great Plains. More and more farmers gave up or were forced off of their land. 
During the 1930s hundreds of thousands left the plains for the West Coast. So many migrated from Oklahoma that they were dubbed "Okies" in the popular press.]]> 2021-01-03 20:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/1050251475 khalsell https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/1050256865 The families packed their belongings and set out on a journey of three days or more down Route 66 to a supposedly better life in the Far West. This migration began in earnest in 1935 and peaked between 1937 and 1938. When the migrants got to Barstow, California, they had to decide whether to follow Highway 66 into Los Angeles or turn north toward California's central agricultural valleys.
 Some 38 percent of the southwestern migrants chose Los Angeles. They did not find a warm reception.  "Okies" quickly blended in and became part of the city's largely Anglo population in the 1930s.

The classic story of "Okie" migration involves those who settled in the San Joaquin Valley. From 1935 to 1940 more than seventy thousand southwesterners migrated to this fertile inland region, hoping for a small plot of their own. It would not happen. Instead, they began harvesting cotton and fruit, pushing out Hispanic and Filipino laborers. ]]> 2021-01-03 20:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/1050256865 khalsell https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/1050272854 The most famous of these camps was the Arvin Farm Labor Supply Center, now known as the “Sunset Camp” or “Weedpatch Camp”, located just south of Lamont. In 1937 this camp housed approximately 300 people in one room tin cabins and tents. The Camp provided a safe place to live for many families, and resulted in a strong community that created its own school and later became the inspiration for the Weedpatch Camp, memorialized in John Steinbeck’s acclaimed novel, The Grapes of Wrath.]]> 2021-01-03 20:56:47 UTC https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/1050272854 khalsell https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/1050274293 John Steinbeck, and American author, wrote a realistic fictional story about a the Jode family, who migrated to California. Steinbeck lived in Weedpatch during the migration.]]> 2021-01-03 20:58:47 UTC https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/1050274293 khalsell https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/1053834911 2021-01-04 22:00:49 UTC https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/1053834911 khalsell https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/2746404052 What is one thing you learned about life in the 1930s that surprised you?]]> 2023-10-14 23:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/2746404052 khalsell https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/2746406019 How did The Dust Bowl affect families?]]> 2023-10-14 23:41:54 UTC https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/2746406019 khalsell https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/2746407265   How was a child of The Dust Bowl's life similar to ours during Covid?]]> 2023-10-14 23:47:47 UTC https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/2746407265 khalsell https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/2746414469 Click the link to see the camps today.]]> 2023-10-15 00:22:15 UTC https://padlet.com/khalsell/EsperanzaRising/wish/2746414469