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"Well okie use’ ta mean you was from Oklahoma, now it means you’re a dirty son-of-a-bitch. Okie means you’re scum. Don’t mean nothing itself, it’s the way they say it." (Stienbeck 207)
October of 1929 marked the start of a dark period for the United States of America, the wall street market crashed leading many to withdraw money from banks, due to the financial system at the time when an entire country tried to withdraw its cash there just wasn't enough to go around, meaning many people didn't get there money and had nothing left. shortly later, in 1930, a drought struck the central American and Canadian prairies leading to water shortage and extreme dust storms that ravaged the property of the area. As the "double whammy" of drought and depression deepened on the Great Plains, more and more farmers gave up or were forced off of their land. In addition, the relentless march of new tractors meant that the farmers who were able to scrape together enough money to buy a tractor could buy out their neighbors. Fewer farmers could farm more land.
"Ma, why’d he say we couldn’ stop here?” “jus’ says they don’ want no damn okies settlin’ down. Says he’s gonna run us in if we’re here tomorra.”
“but we aint use’ ta getting’ shoved aroun’ by no cops.” “I tol’ him that,” said ma. “he says we ain’t home now. We’re in California, and they do what they want.” (Steinbeck 216)
"And the men of these towns and of the soft suburban country gathered to defend themselves and they reassured themselves that they were good and the invaders bad, as a man must do before he fights. They said, these goddamned okies are dirty and ignorant. They’re degenerate, sexual maniacs. These goddamned okies are thieves. They’ll steal anything. They’ve got no sense of property rights." (Steinbeck 283)
RESULTS:
California, the state that had once advertised for more migrant workers, found themselves overwhelmed by thousands of new migrants a month, many more migrants than they needed. So for several months in 1936, the Los Angeles Police Department sent 136 deputies to the state lines to turn back migrants who didn't have any money. The neighboring states of Nevada and Arizona were angered by the fact that California was dumping its "dumb hobo's" in there state. the overall opinion of the okies and other migrant workers was disdainful, they were treated poorly because of the low economic status due to the great depression and dust bowl.
Similiar to todays economic troubles our country faced struggles in the 1930's to as demonstrated in the following video...
From 1935 to 1940 California received more than 250,000 migrants from the Southwest. A plurality of the impoverished ones came from Oklahoma. Mechanization of farming began to consolidate small farms into larger ones. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration's policy of paying farmers to not raise crops often resulted in landowners taking tenants' land out of production. Moreover, many tenants and small land-holding farmers, especially in southeastern Oklahoma, simply had a migratory habit. The classic story of "Okie" migration involves those who settled in the San Joaquin Valley. From 1935 to 1940 more than seventy thousand southwesterners migrated to this fertile inland region, hoping for a small plot of their own. It would not happen. Instead, they began harvesting cotton and fruit, pushing out Hispanic and Filipino laborers. The influx of migrants depressed wages, satisfying farm owners, but the "Okies," unlike the Hispanics, tended to stick around after the harvests. The federal Farm Security Administration (FSA) provided several clean camps designed to be governed by the residents and to foster a sense of self-respect. But these were only models for state and private organizations, which were not prone to build any kind of residences.
rebellion?
The powerful Associated Farmers (the growers) feared the "Okies" might unionize and demand better wages. Although the Committee for Industrial Organization (known as the Congress of Industrial Organizations after 1938) created the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA), which led a number of strikes in the fields, the migrants did not have a very strong class consciousness. Many were demoralized, and most identified more with farm owners than laborers. As many as thirty-seven thousand migrants, lured by the growers' intense recruitment effort, entered the state from 1937 to1938 to harvest a bumper cotton crop. The number of workers may have been twice as many as needed. Some suspected an effort to depress wages and hinder unionization. As the harvest came to an end, and floods in the San Joaquin Valley forestalled the migrants' movement to California, tensions mounted. Arizona's three-year residency requirement ruled out public assistance. In March 1938 pickers allied with UCAPAWA and marched for food. When the FSA provided relief, the tension dissipated and many migrants moved on.
results:
Sympathetic artists gained fame as they raised the national consciousness about their distressed subjects. John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) depicted a downtrodden Joad family trekking from Oklahoma to California, suffering scorn and economic oppression as they sought honest employment. The supposedly helpless "Okies" of these works might have been more symbols of the artists' ideologies than the real migrants, who actually left a noticeable imprint on the central valleys of California. they infused the region with country music. Even as the migrants dispersed to defense industry jobs during World War II, or climbed up the economic ladder to own a plot of land in the valley, or went back home to Oklahoma, they had made their mark on the society that had treated them with contempt
Overall, I think you guys created an okay wiki page. The wiki has many pictures that draw the reader's attention. However, the page seems a little short and lacks information. The text was a little hard to read due to its size and style and the colors are a little erratic. The wiki could have been better if it had more diversity in media.
Overall, this wiki page was alright. Everything on this page seems smaller the photos should have been bigger, things should have been more spaced out and the font bigger. Using space helps the reader stay focused and not feel crowded by the page. I did not feel that this was an appealing wiki page. I did like the video clips and the photos but there are negative aspects.
I agree with much of what Amy said. The text was hard to read at points, although the information was all there. I like how you did the "results" paragraphs, that was a good tough. It could be have been a bit brighter..but overall, you got the project done.
I think that the font should be different and pictures should be bigger. It looks like there are lots of gaps in the page because the font is not close together and the pictures are really small. However, I liked the videos you included! And how you started with why the Okies were "Okies" and what happened to them. I also like how you included the part where the Okies rebelled and what the outcome was. I like how the font is in different colors, but I still think a different font would have been better, also if the topic statements (such as "Causes") were in a larger or bolder font. There was a lot of good information, it's just the page is not very visually appealing.
Overall, I think you could've made your pictures and font bigger. They made the wiki seem smaller than it actually was and it isn't that appealing to the eyes. I liked all your pictures but because of their size, it wasn't like I knew what they were. Your information is good, just the design is lacking... eye catching-ness.
I really liked the pictures on the wiki. The text is really small so it makes it difficult to read and I think that if it were larger it could be easier to read. I think that if there was also other media aspects the page could have been better. There was I agree with Micki a lot of good information though.
In all, I think the font could have been a little bigger and easier to read. The wiki itself was short as well, but there was good information in it. So the only problem was that it wasn't very appealing to look at.
I love the unity in text on this page, I think it was made more appealing by the same text with different colors. Also it made it clear when you were changing topics on the page. In addition, I thought your pictures went really well with the topics of discussion at each point. The only thing I might add is more pictures maybe? But all in all i thought it was really great.
I really enjoyed the organization in this Wiki, organization is key for me to be engaged in the information and wanting to continue on reading. However, maybe more text or media added with the information given? It seemed that the paragraphs of texts are a little long.
What was your overall impression of this wiki page?
Very organized and well put together.
What are the greatest strengths of this wiki page ? Explain.
I liked the color of all the fonts, it provided a nice variation to black text.
What are the greatest weaknesses of this wiki page? Explain.
The font size made it hard to read.
This wiki overall was great. There was a lot of good information organized very well into sections. I also like the font and color changes. However I think the pictures should have been a little bigger and maybe you could have added a few more!
I was a little bit bored by the type of text from the beginning, it looks like a typewriter or something. While this may have been more relevant to the time period, I would rather read a times new roman type, Serif font. But I'm also very nitpicky, this might not have bothered anyone else. I did like how the pictures were intertwined with the text well so that you could look at the pictures while reading without having to scroll up and down, though. Overall, pretty good.
The color scheme was good and the pictures were well placed. The information might have been easier to read if in bullets rather then paragraphs. The picture of the Okies in the wagon really captured the generations that had to endure this time.
The page is a little short but the information was great. I also like that your pictures weren't massive so they didn't take up a lot of space. The color is a nice touch and I enjoyed the quotes you used. I don't like the font choice you used, however.
The page was okay, in my opinion. I wasn't blown away, but I wasn't skeptical either. I do think you had a cool set-up, how you had the causes and the results, that really was different from most pages and was very creatve. The videos were shorter but still got their point across, which I think is really nice (I don't want to sit for 10 minutes watching a video like on some other pages). I would say that there were lots of grammatical errors, which indicated a sloppy/rushed appearance to the page. Other than that, the structure and organization was great, and the page was too.
This wiki was decent, I feel there was a lot more things that could of been added to it, and more information could have been brought to the spot light. Overall it was good though, opening up with the cause of the stock market crash was good and the details were sufficient to go along with the topic, good job.
This wiki page does not leave a lasting impression at all. The text style itself is very dry and boring, almost no media types were used (only written text and a few pictures), and the quality of the information provided, overall, is somewhat lacking. However, considering your group had only two people, it seems that you put in your best effort to this page, and expecting as much from you as a group of four just does not seem fair. With that in mind, I would say that this wiki page is fairly good.
The wiki was a bit dry in my first opinion. It did have accurate information pertaining to your topic, but your font style was redundant and boring to look at. You did utilize pictures and videos in your wiki, but you could have afforded to make your font styles a bit more diverse. Granted, your group was not large, so good job.
As TJ and Justin mentioned, there were only two members in this group and with such a small group, I believe they did the best they could have done. Although, the text and information could have been better, and more mediums should have been used to attract attention. Nice job!
This wiki was alright. I liked your use of colorful text and pictures, however, i think if you had a different font, or even a few different fonts, it would have been more successful. Also, your page seemed to be a bit short. If you had some more information, it would have been longer and more successful.
I agree with Alexa, this wiki is
"alright" but it could use alot more information, pictures, and videos.
The text was hard to read, however I like the colors that you guys used.
The information on this page was accurate and informative. However one word to improve it is enlarge. Make the pictures bigger, and the text bigger. That would make the page more appealing to the eye and draw the audience in more. Since the text and pictures were so small, the wiki page seemed very short. It could be better, but props for effort!
It was a little dry to read, but the colors kept me interested. I wish the pictures were bigger and that there was different sized fonts for the important parts.
Visually, this page is somewhat bland. All of the photos are black and white with no paintings or artwork to add colour. The colourful text works as a solution to a degree but that is also a tad bland because of the font. This page is acceptable but not great.
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Comments (26)
Spixley@rsd6.org said
at 4:59 pm on Aug 22, 2011
Time is running out, I'm getting concerned.
Steven said
at 11:26 pm on Sep 10, 2011
Overall, I think you guys created an okay wiki page. The wiki has many pictures that draw the reader's attention. However, the page seems a little short and lacks information. The text was a little hard to read due to its size and style and the colors are a little erratic. The wiki could have been better if it had more diversity in media.
-Steven Woodruff
Amyo said
at 9:40 pm on Sep 11, 2011
Overall, this wiki page was alright. Everything on this page seems smaller the photos should have been bigger, things should have been more spaced out and the font bigger. Using space helps the reader stay focused and not feel crowded by the page. I did not feel that this was an appealing wiki page. I did like the video clips and the photos but there are negative aspects.
MeaganG said
at 3:22 pm on Sep 14, 2011
I agree with much of what Amy said. The text was hard to read at points, although the information was all there. I like how you did the "results" paragraphs, that was a good tough. It could be have been a bit brighter..but overall, you got the project done.
Micki said
at 8:50 pm on Sep 14, 2011
I think that the font should be different and pictures should be bigger. It looks like there are lots of gaps in the page because the font is not close together and the pictures are really small. However, I liked the videos you included! And how you started with why the Okies were "Okies" and what happened to them. I also like how you included the part where the Okies rebelled and what the outcome was. I like how the font is in different colors, but I still think a different font would have been better, also if the topic statements (such as "Causes") were in a larger or bolder font. There was a lot of good information, it's just the page is not very visually appealing.
Robinm said
at 9:18 pm on Sep 14, 2011
Overall, I think you could've made your pictures and font bigger. They made the wiki seem smaller than it actually was and it isn't that appealing to the eyes. I liked all your pictures but because of their size, it wasn't like I knew what they were. Your information is good, just the design is lacking... eye catching-ness.
BettyB said
at 10:54 pm on Sep 14, 2011
I really liked the pictures on the wiki. The text is really small so it makes it difficult to read and I think that if it were larger it could be easier to read. I think that if there was also other media aspects the page could have been better. There was I agree with Micki a lot of good information though.
Danielled said
at 11:40 pm on Sep 14, 2011
In all, I think the font could have been a little bigger and easier to read. The wiki itself was short as well, but there was good information in it. So the only problem was that it wasn't very appealing to look at.
Emma said
at 1:30 pm on Sep 15, 2011
I love the unity in text on this page, I think it was made more appealing by the same text with different colors. Also it made it clear when you were changing topics on the page. In addition, I thought your pictures went really well with the topics of discussion at each point. The only thing I might add is more pictures maybe? But all in all i thought it was really great.
ErikaS said
at 1:34 pm on Sep 15, 2011
I really enjoyed the organization in this Wiki, organization is key for me to be engaged in the information and wanting to continue on reading. However, maybe more text or media added with the information given? It seemed that the paragraphs of texts are a little long.
ElliottH said
at 2:51 pm on Sep 15, 2011
What was your overall impression of this wiki page?
Very organized and well put together.
What are the greatest strengths of this wiki page ? Explain.
I liked the color of all the fonts, it provided a nice variation to black text.
What are the greatest weaknesses of this wiki page? Explain.
The font size made it hard to read.
Jessicab said
at 7:00 pm on Sep 15, 2011
This wiki overall was great. There was a lot of good information organized very well into sections. I also like the font and color changes. However I think the pictures should have been a little bigger and maybe you could have added a few more!
SamuelS said
at 8:39 pm on Sep 15, 2011
I was a little bit bored by the type of text from the beginning, it looks like a typewriter or something. While this may have been more relevant to the time period, I would rather read a times new roman type, Serif font. But I'm also very nitpicky, this might not have bothered anyone else. I did like how the pictures were intertwined with the text well so that you could look at the pictures while reading without having to scroll up and down, though. Overall, pretty good.
Mitchr said
at 10:48 pm on Sep 16, 2011
The color scheme was good and the pictures were well placed. The information might have been easier to read if in bullets rather then paragraphs. The picture of the Okies in the wagon really captured the generations that had to endure this time.
ColetteD said
at 8:23 am on Sep 17, 2011
The page is a little short but the information was great. I also like that your pictures weren't massive so they didn't take up a lot of space. The color is a nice touch and I enjoyed the quotes you used. I don't like the font choice you used, however.
Valerie said
at 9:19 pm on Sep 17, 2011
The page was okay, in my opinion. I wasn't blown away, but I wasn't skeptical either. I do think you had a cool set-up, how you had the causes and the results, that really was different from most pages and was very creatve. The videos were shorter but still got their point across, which I think is really nice (I don't want to sit for 10 minutes watching a video like on some other pages). I would say that there were lots of grammatical errors, which indicated a sloppy/rushed appearance to the page. Other than that, the structure and organization was great, and the page was too.
IshmaelH said
at 11:05 am on Sep 18, 2011
This wiki was decent, I feel there was a lot more things that could of been added to it, and more information could have been brought to the spot light. Overall it was good though, opening up with the cause of the stock market crash was good and the details were sufficient to go along with the topic, good job.
TimothyR said
at 12:42 pm on Sep 18, 2011
This wiki page does not leave a lasting impression at all. The text style itself is very dry and boring, almost no media types were used (only written text and a few pictures), and the quality of the information provided, overall, is somewhat lacking. However, considering your group had only two people, it seems that you put in your best effort to this page, and expecting as much from you as a group of four just does not seem fair. With that in mind, I would say that this wiki page is fairly good.
Justin said
at 1:03 pm on Sep 18, 2011
The wiki was a bit dry in my first opinion. It did have accurate information pertaining to your topic, but your font style was redundant and boring to look at. You did utilize pictures and videos in your wiki, but you could have afforded to make your font styles a bit more diverse. Granted, your group was not large, so good job.
parent said
at 4:08 pm on Sep 18, 2011
As TJ and Justin mentioned, there were only two members in this group and with such a small group, I believe they did the best they could have done. Although, the text and information could have been better, and more mediums should have been used to attract attention. Nice job!
--Sara Musselman
alexa said
at 5:25 pm on Sep 18, 2011
This wiki was alright. I liked your use of colorful text and pictures, however, i think if you had a different font, or even a few different fonts, it would have been more successful. Also, your page seemed to be a bit short. If you had some more information, it would have been longer and more successful.
Alexis said
at 9:21 pm on Sep 18, 2011
I agree with Alexa, this wiki is
"alright" but it could use alot more information, pictures, and videos.
The text was hard to read, however I like the colors that you guys used.
NatalieP said
at 11:15 pm on Sep 18, 2011
The information on this page was accurate and informative. However one word to improve it is enlarge. Make the pictures bigger, and the text bigger. That would make the page more appealing to the eye and draw the audience in more. Since the text and pictures were so small, the wiki page seemed very short. It could be better, but props for effort!
student said
at 11:18 pm on Sep 18, 2011
It was a little dry to read, but the colors kept me interested. I wish the pictures were bigger and that there was different sized fonts for the important parts.
student said
at 11:19 pm on Sep 18, 2011
^Nicole Rode
Anonymous said
at 12:48 pm on Sep 20, 2011
Visually, this page is somewhat bland. All of the photos are black and white with no paintings or artwork to add colour. The colourful text works as a solution to a degree but that is also a tad bland because of the font. This page is acceptable but not great.
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