Relief
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Social worker Dorothy Williamson describes her experiences in the Dust Bowl
Social worker Dorothy Williamson describes her experiences talking with victims of the Dust Bowl. What help there was came from Washington, D.C., with programs such as the CCC, NYA, or WPA.
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Relief
Clip: Episode 2 | 6m 43sVideo has Closed Captions
Social worker Dorothy Williamson describes her experiences talking with victims of the Dust Bowl. What help there was came from Washington, D.C., with programs such as the CCC, NYA, or WPA.
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Clip: Ep2 | 1m 33s | People who moved to CA were known as Okies. (1m 33s)
Episode 2 Introduction | Woody Guthrie's 'The Great Dust Storm'
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Clip: Ep2 | 2m 17s | In the introduction to episode two Woody Guthrie sings "The Great Dust Storm" (2m 17s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 5m 16s | By 1937, the Dust Bowl farmers are asking for government help. (5m 16s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 1m 30s | Some people packed up their families and headed west. (1m 30s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 1m 50s | Hugh Bennett went on a fact finding trip through the Great Plains in search of a solution. (1m 50s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 4m 54s | What lessons can we take from what happened during the Dust Bowl? (4m 54s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 3m 26s | What have we learned from the Dust Bowl? (3m 26s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 3m 39s | Help came to the Great Plains by way of New Deal programs. (3m 39s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 6m 20s | Woody Guthrie sings “I Ain’t Got No Home” and talks about migrant families traveling. (6m 20s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 1m 39s | Dorthy Williamson discusses working in the southern Great Plains during the dust bowl. (1m 39s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 4m 20s | In 1935, 850 million acres of topsoil are swept off the Great Plains. (4m 20s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 4m 43s | In the summer of 1936, Roosevelt takes a whistle-stop tour across the Midwest. (4m 43s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 3m 34s | Woody Guthrie moves to Los Angeles in the second half of the 1930s. (3m 34s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 2m 19s | No matter their state of origin, during the 1930s all newcomers were dubbed Okies in CA (2m 19s)
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