American Migrant

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

During the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, millions of desperate Americans abandoned their homes, farms and businesses. It was one of the largest migrations in US history. In the 1940s, Pat Rush’s family were farm laborers, exhausted by trying to make ends meet. So they left Arkansas and followed the hundreds of thousands who had traveled Route 66 to California. There, the federal government had built resettlement camps to help deal with the influx. Migrant stories have two parts: the leaving of an old life, and the building of a new one.

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0:51.0	Today, the story of a woman who is part of one of the largest migrations
0:55.4	in US history.
0:56.7	Thousand mile trek, deserting their farmsteads that had shriveled and powdered
1:01.5	and blown away in the wind.
1:03.4	Westward out of America's Dust Bowl
1:05.3	comes this constant caravan of migratory workers.
1:08.8	Millions of desperate Americans
1:10.5	abandoned their homes, farms, and businesses during the Dust Bowl in the 1930s.
1:15.8	The last drought ended by 1940.
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