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Okies and Dust Bowl refugees reshape Bakersfield community
The piece recalls Okies driven west by the Dust Bowl arriving in Weedpatch Arvin Lamont and Bakersfield during the Depression. It notes wages as low as 25 cents an hour, Hooverville camps, and later integration as Okies and their descendants become farmers doctors lawyers and teachers with improved fortunes and education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Joaquin Valley
W.P
Pep” Followwill
Midlands
L.M. Nichols
Californa
Oklahoma
Hoovervilles
Weedpatch
Arvin
Lamont
Robert D. Neusch
Thelma Weeks
Texas