Migrant Mothers
Articles, Newspaper Clippings and Works Cited
Migrant Mothers : Pilot
Works Cited
Film:
Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl ( Trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYOmjQO_UMw )
Slavery by Another Name ( Trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjUF1ktxxIQ )
Black Okies ( https://vimeo.com/279773422 )
Books:
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Egan, Timothy
American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California Gregory, James N.
Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California (Volume 22) La Chapelle, Peter
Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl Marrin, Albert
12 Million Black Voices Wright, Richard
Scholarly Works:
“From Oklahomans to “Okies”: identity formation in rural California” Alexander, Toni Ann
“Norms, Law, and Reparations: The Case of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Oklahoma” Brophy, Alfred L.
“Oklatopia”: The Cultural Mission of California’s Migratory Labor Camps, 1935-1941″ O’Reilly, Kelly R.
“Women and Work: African American Women in Depression Era America” Ward, Sarah
“Strange Fruit on the Southern Plains: Racial Violence, Lynching, and African Americans in Oklahoma, 1830-1930” Woodon, Evan
Newspaper Articles:
“Negroes Plan Freedom Day” The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) · Sun, Jun 14, 1931
“Negro Group Seeks Repel of ‘Crow’ Law” The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) · Wed, 17 Jun 1931
“Murray to Address Negro Convention” The Standard-Sentinel (Stilwell, Oklahoma) · Thu, Jun 18, 1931
“Big Celebration to be Held in the City” The Democrat-American (Sallisaw, Oklahoma) · Thu, Jun 18, 1931
The Blue Valley Farmer (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) · Thu, Jun 18, 1931
Additional Sites:
Migrant Mothers : The Laws of No Man’s Land
Newspaper Articles:
“Hoover Gets Six States” The New York Times (New York, New York) · Nov. 10, 1932
“Dig Out of Oklahoma Jail” The New York Times (New York, New York) · Dec. 15, 1929
“Convicts tunnel McAlester walls” Seminole Morning News (Seminole, Oklahoma) · Sun, Dec. 15,
“Slain Bandit Identified as Pal of Floyd” Miami Daily News-Record (Miami, Oklahoma) · Thu, Nov. 24, 1932
“Funeral is Held for Slain Robber” Okmulgee Daily Times (Okmulgee, Oklahoma) · Sat, Nov. 26, 1932
“Three are Slain in Bank Robbery” Okmulgee Daily Times (Okmulgee, Oklahoma) · Thu, Nov. 24, 1932
“Historic Oklahoma Bank Tied to Pretty Boy Floyd to be Restored” Wallace, Josh, The Oklahoman · Mar. 31, 2019
“Only in Oklahoma: Boley Proved its Bank was not an Easy Target” Curtis, Gene, Tulsa World · Feb. 25, 2007
Podcast:
“Historic Black town, Boley OK, Fended Off Pretty Boy Floyd’s Bank Robbers” The Gist of Freedom, Blog Talk Radio · 2016.
Additional Sites:
“Repeal of Prohibition in the United States”,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeal_of_Prohibition_in_the_United_States
“Bank Robbery in Boley, Oklahoma” McRae, Bennie J. Jr, http://lestweforget.hamptonu.edu
“Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd” https://www.carnegie.lib.oh.us/Floyd
“Bandit in Boley” Birdwell-Branson, Jamie, https://thislandpress.com/2014/08/10/bandit-in-boley/
Episode’s Image Reference Citation:
- Annabelle – Dorothea Lange Wife and Child of Tractor Farmer, 1937
- Peter – (Natural / Sepia) Ben Shahn, Three Negro children, Natchez, Mississippi, 1935 (Sepia / Vivid) Ben Shahn, Huntingdon, Tennessee, 1935
- Floyd – Ben Shahn, Sharecropper on Sunday, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935
- Pauline – (Natural / Sepia) Walker Evans Girl in French Quarter, New Orleans, 1935 (Sepia / Vivid) Dorothea Lange Cotton hoer near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1937
- Jessy – Dorothea Lange Migrant shed worker. Northeast Florida, 1936
- Lucille – Dorothea Lange Old Negress of Greene County, Georgia, 1937
- Clay – (Natural / Sepia) Eudora Welty Untitled (Hinds County), circa 1930 (Sepia / Vivid) Dorothea Lange, Shipyard Worker, Richmond California, 1943
- Ginny – Dorothea Lange Untitled (Oklahoma Mother in California) 1937
- Wayne – (Natural / Sepia) John Vachon Young Boy in Baltimore slum area, 1938 (Sepia / Vivid) Unknown Young Farmer in Arkansas, 1930
- Floyd – Ben Shahn, Maynardville, Tennessee, 1935
- James – (Natural / Sepia) Dorothea Lange Preschool children, Kern migrant camp, California, 1936 (Sepia / Vivid) Arthur Rothstein Son of a sharecropper, Mississippi County, Arkansas, 1935
