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The great okie migration by Killian Fouillade & Pablo Izing

These photos describe how the migrant lived during the Great Depression.
The Great Depression is an economic crisis going on in the year 1930.
These photos also show how migrant people live after the dust bowl.
The dustbowl is a storm series which caused an important agricultural crisis and a lot of damage.
This damage expulsed the population to migrate to California.
The population can’t work because of storms drying up farm’s. And California proposed work so the population go to California.
But as a lot of people migrate to California so there is not enough work for everyone.when migrants arrive in California they are welcomed in a camp that looks like a dump.
The migrants used the route 66 to go to California.

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