The Dust Bowl was a hard time experienced by millions of people worldwide, the migrant workers were affected more because when they moved to another job the jobs were not there. Farmers were going out of business due to the lack of moisture in the ground and atmosphere, and when there wasn’t farmland there wasn’t food for cattle so thousands of animals died due to starvation and dust pneumonia. Migrant workers were found traveling farther than ever looking for the few jobs that were available for people to take. However, while thousands of Okies and Arkies did take to the road in search of survival, they joined migrant workers who had traveled the nation in search of work long before the Depression and who would continue to do so for decades thereafter. One source wrote that “ Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert are trying to travel up the East Coast without being detected, so they decide to hitch a ride.” (Bill Ganzel , P#1)
These migrants, many of them racial and ethnic minorities, had always worked for low wages and lived in horrible conditions. The Great Depression merely exacerbated their harsh circumstance.…show more content… The were often found bouncing from town to town eating out of dumpsters and riding the railroads until they were kicked off of the trains by conductors It didn’t matter if they were men ,women ,infants ,or toddlers if you weren’t white you were thought of less and were almost left in the dark. John Steinbeck, a young journalist from California, followed the stories of migrants who trailed westward out of the Dustbowl in search of jobs. In 1939. John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath, a novel that won Steinbeck acclaims as one of America's great writers. It tells of the hardships that people would have went
