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Breaking through barriers for women and girls
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Links
- Center for Steinbeck Studies:
The only university research archive in the world dedicated solely to John Steinbeck’s life and work, this Center promotes Steinbeck’s goals of empathy and understanding by supporting education, inquiry, and the literary arts.
Visit the Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University.
- The National Steinbeck Center:
The National Steinbeck Center is located at One Main Street, in the heart of historic Oldtown Salinas, the birthplace of Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Open seven days a week year-round, we are the perfect beginning or end to any trip to Monterey Bay Region.
Visit the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, CA.
- California in the 1930s:
The history of migration from Oklahoma and Arkansas to California
and the plight of farm workers.
Read about the history of migration to California.
- Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s:
How the Dust Bowl migration affected travel from Oklahoma and Arkansas,
and the heart-rending stories of poverty and race it engendered.
Read more about the history of migration to California.
- The Wrath of the Dust Bowl:
The Dust Bowl phenomenon of the 1930s played an important role in the lives of the Joads in the Grapes of Wrath. It resulted in their migration to California and the tough times that lay ahead. Read an important article that explains how dust storms came about in the Great Plains of America and the symbolic and real affect this had on the Great Depression.
- Dust Bowl Refugee:
Woody Guthrie wrote songs in honor of the Okies who came from California.
Here are the lyrics of Dust Bowl Refugee.
Sing Woody Guthries’ dust bowl song.
- http://Grapes of Wrath Movie:
Henry Fonda starred in a movie about the Grapes of Wrath in the 1940’s.
Learn more about it.
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