[DOC] [TLE] Okies, Dust Bowl Migrants from Oklahoma & the Plains [PAR] So many migrated from Oklahoma that they were dubbed "Okies" in the popular 
press. ... The plight of the Okies and other plains migrants caught the sympathy of 
people across the country. In part ... and wrote a magnificent piece of fiction The 
Grapes of Wrath which still sells millions of copies today. ... Farming in the 1930s. [DOC] [TLE] Okie - Wikipedia [PAR] An Okie is a resident, native, or cultural descendant of Oklahoma. Like most 
terms that ... The Dust Bowl and the "Okie" migration of the 1930s brought in over 
a million newly ... born in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, or Missouri, lived outside 
the region, ... well-known nationwide by John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of 
Wrath. [DOC] [TLE] John Steinbeck: Great Depression - Shmoop [PAR] The entire region became known as the Dust Bowl. ... Steinbeck also spent part 
of that year traveling with a group of migrant workers ... Steinbeck was horrified 
by their plight and empathized with the men's sense of dignity. ... But Steinbeck 
wrote to provoke social change, and The Grapes of Wrath accomplished that. [DOC] [TLE] The Dust Bowl Migration: Poverty Stories, Race Stories [PAR] "Southernizing the American Working Class: Post War Episodes of Regional and 
... The Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s plays an important and complicated role 
in the ... For almost seventy years the story of white families from Oklahoma and 
.... more attention to farm workers in the decades following The Grapes of Wrath. [DOC] [TLE] SparkNotes: The Grapes of Wrath: Context [PAR] A trio of novels in the late 1930s focused on the lives of migrant workers in ... The 
afflicted region became known as the Dust Bowl. ... When Steinbeck decided to 
write a novel about the plight of migrant farm workers, he took his task very 
seriously. ... When The Grapes of Wrath appeared, it soared to the top of the 
bestseller... [DOC] [TLE] The Great Depression and The Grapes of Wrath Revealed ... [PAR] Mar 21, 2014 ... Grapes of Wrath Views from the University of Oklahoma: Two ... Viking Press 
featured a series of paintings by the Midwestern artist Thomas Hart Benton, not 
the ... It featured Bristol's Joads (shown above and at the top of the page) and 
the ... called 'Tower Town,' to see the plight of the migrants themselves. [DOC] [TLE] The Grapes of Wrath: The Grapes of Wrath Book Summary & Study ... [PAR] In John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Joad and his family are forced 
from their farm in the Depression-era Oklahoma Dust Bowl and set out for ... of 
the American Midwest, including much of the state of Oklahoma, creating what 
was ... the desperate plight of Depression-era migrant workers, whom the author 
felt had... [DOC] [TLE] Kiera Berkemeyer, "California's Role in the Dust Bowl Migration" [PAR] [6] Interestingly enough, the Wheatbelt or Dust Bowl parts of Oklahoma as well as 
... Unlike John Steinbeck in his novel The Grapes of Wrath , Gregory seeks to .... 
aims to draw attention to the plight of the migrant workers in California. .... [1] In 
the 1930s severe drought plagued the Midwest and cost many people their farms
. [DOC] [TLE] Dust Bowl 1931-1939 - World History in Context - Gale [PAR] Soils of this region had always been prone to dust storms in the past, but during 
the .... This migration out of the Dust Bowl during the 1930s became the largest .... 
like Dorothea Lange's were taken to document the plight of the American farmer. 
..... The Grapes of Wrath tells the story of a family from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl,... [DOC] [TLE] Creating an Historical Myth with The Grapes of Wrath Mae D'Amico ... [PAR] Nov 11, 2012 ... the Midwest, who were migrants just a couple generations before, gathered their 
... historical occurrences addressed in The Grapes of Wrath, but rather discuss 
whether. Steinbeck created a historical myth of the plight of the Okies by ... 1 
Donald Worster, Dust Bowl; The

Question: "The Grapes of Wrath" showed the plight of Oklahoma migrants from this 1930s Midwest region
Answer: the Dust Bowl