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Books on: okies

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Journal Articles on: okies

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Newspaper Articles on: okies

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    'Okie' Contribution; Haggards Give Family Items, Help Smithsonian Travel on Route 66
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 29, 2003
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Okie contribution; Haggards give family items...give rise to resentments. "Being called an Okie, at one time, was like the n-word...anthem in his 1969 No. 1 country hit, "Okie From Muskogee." Donating a lamp, a trunk...
     
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    Off the Field, Sooners Can Barely Score
    Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), September 16, 2004
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Depression. And Saturday we play the No. 2 Okies. A weekend with Hurricane Ivan might be...four seasons, UO twice. Field goal, Okies. (Ducks 51-3.) BOWL GAMES LOST BECAUSE...covering it for a Seattle-area paper - the Okies made a field goal during a comeback attempt...
     
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    Skewering Left's Take on History
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 15, 2002
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Windschuttle on "Steinbecks Myth of the Okies." Mr. Windschuttle acknowledges the...York bohemians than with California Okies, who much preferred Gene Autry and Merle Haggard, "and by the 1960s the Okies and their offspring made up an important...
     
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    Letters in the Editor's Mailbag
    Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 28, 2007
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and other states. They were all called Okies, and they planted and harvested the crops. After a few years, the illegal immigrants began to push the Okies out of the fields by working for lower wages. Lets take care of...
     
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    REASONS TO B BE CHEERFUL; Swiss Shock Gives Wales Idea of How to Enjoy Euro Glory
    Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), June 20, 2010
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...of dealing with. Id take Bale over Glen Johnson any day and at centre-back England will have to go for roo that wou lips. okies or stick with a lack of pace uld have Craig Bellamy licking his 4 MIGH We are f of Wales anything cess - b otherwis With a lion...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: okies

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    Arkansas , State, United States
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...to other regions before its strength waned. Other impoverished farmers migrated west to California as "Arkies" like the "Okies" from neighboring Oklahoma. After World War I, African Americans left the state in a steady stream to the industrial North...
     
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    Oklahoma
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...farmers were compelled to leave their dust-stricken farms and went west as migrant laborers; the tragic plight of these "Okies" is the theme of John Steinbecks novel The Grapes of Wrath. With the return of rains, however, and with increasing care...
     

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