In California’s San Joaquin Valley, where many farmers fleeing the plains have gone seeking migrant ... and workers are given a 25 percent raise. Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl ...

In this era of despair, the agricultural regions of the American Midwest were further devastated by the Dust Bowl, a series .

a place that seemed “like paradise” to a Dust Bowl migrant from Oklahoma. Woody wrote this song after a plane deporting Mexican farm workers from California crashed, killing 32 people in 1948.

In California’s San Joaquin Valley, where many farmers fleeing the plains have gone seeking migrant ... and workers are given a 25 percent raise. Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl ...