Days+of+the+Dust+Bowl

By the 1930s, farm tenancy had essentially replaced slavery, making Black and White tenants equally vulnerable to landlord and reinforcing conditions of dependency and poverty. Here the causation of migration were manifest: the poverty of the overused and undernourished soil, the eagerness of farmers to produce mainly a 'cash crop' rather than living in harmony with what the land could produce and sustain, and finally the gradual introduction of large scale farming equipment, often financed by Roosevelt's various programs designed to help the poor farmer. Lange documented the change."
 * Days of the Dust Bowl **

The impact of displaced farmworkers moving to California that began in 1930s was followed by a mass migration of southern sharecroppers in the 40s to take the many wartime jobs that opened up in this bustling port city. Dorothea had a dream never realized of organizing a project modeled on the Farm Security Administration of the 1930s, to "study the ways society shift-change from a small rural community to an urban mass culture".

==The photograph became an icon of the Great Depression: a migrant mother with her children burying their faces in her shoulder. Katherine McIntosh was 4 years old when the photo was snapped. She said it brought shame -- and determination -- to her family. ==
 * ==**Dorothea Lange snapped iconic Great Depression photo of "Migrant Mother" in 1936**==
 * Look up Dorthea Lange's role in documenting the **people**of the 1930's Great Depression
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 * ====**Awesome pictures and information**====
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 * ====**Half a Million Joads: The Dust Bowl Migration**====
 * [] Historical content


 * =====**The history of what was going on at the time of the Great Depression and The Dust Bowl. **=====
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 * **Arvin Federal government Camp/Weedpatch Camp is a government program set up to help the travelers on the road escaping the dust bowl conditions** **looking for work**. **Below are some topics of the camp that should be research. This site is a good palce to begin.**


 * Weedpatch camp
 * History
 * Life in camp
 * Federal government role
 * Weedpatch school


 * === General Dust Bowl background ===
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 * === explanation of “Black Sunday” ===
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 * === photos (13) ===
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 * ===General information mixed with info from a book review===
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**Dust Bowl Activities** By the 1930s, farm tenancy had essentially replaced slavery, making Black and White tenants equally vulnerable to landlord and reinforcing conditions of dependency and poverty. Here the causation of migration were manifest: the poverty of the overused and undernourished soil, the eagerness of farmers to produce mainly a 'cash crop' rather than living in harmony with what the land could produce and sustain, and finally the gradual introduction of large scale farming equipment, often financed by Roosevelt's various programs designed to help the poor farmer. Lange documented the change." The impact of displaced farmworkers moving to California that began in 1930s was followed by a mass migration of southern sharecroppers in the 40s to take the many wartime jobs that opened up in this bustling port city. Dorothea had a dream never realized of organizing a project modeled on the Farm Security Administration of the 1930s, to "study the ways society shift-change from a small rural community to an urban mass culture". The photograph became an icon of the Great Depression: a migrant mother with her children burying their faces in her shoulder. Katherine McIntosh was 4 years old when the photo was snapped. She said it brought shame -- and determination -- to her family. **Dorothea Lange snapped iconic Great Depression photo of "Migrant Mother" in 1936** Look up Dorthea Lange's role in documenting the **people** of the 1930's Great Depression []**Awesome pictures and information** [] **Half a Million Joads: The Dust Bowl Migration** [] Historical content **The history of what was going on at the time of the Great Depression and The Dust Bowl.** [] **Arvin Federal government Camp/Weedpatch Camp is a government program set up to help the travelers on the road escaping the dust bowl conditions** **looking for work**. **Below are some topics of the camp that should be research. This site is a good palce to begin.** General Dust Bowl background
 * Weedpatch camp
 * History
 * Life in camp
 * Federal government role
 * Weedpatch school

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 * === history of the Conservation Corp ===

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 * === history of sharecropping ===

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 * === explanation of “Black Sunday” ===

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 * === photos (13) ===

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 * ===General information mixed with info from a book review===

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 * ===Information. timeline, etc===