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.