{"id":214,"date":"2023-11-15T19:49:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T19:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startersites.io\/blocksy\/daily-news\/?p=214"},"modified":"2026-08-30T02:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:04:25","slug":"convallis-posuere-morbi-leo-orna-molestie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/convallis-posuere-morbi-leo-orna-molestie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dust Bowl Migration, Frozen in Photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through the 1930s, a combination of drought and poor farming practices turned huge stretches of the American Great Plains into dry, wind-blown wasteland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hundreds of thousands of families, unable to farm land that had literally blown away, packed what they could and headed west, hoping for work in California&#8217;s fields. Photographers documented the migration in images that remain some of the most recognizable of the era \u2014 hollow-eyed families, overloaded cars, makeshift roadside camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"a-face-that-became-a-symbol\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Face That Became a Symbol<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One photograph in particular, of a weathered mother surrounded by her children, became the defining image of the era \u2014 though the woman herself later said she never received any benefit or payment for a photo that made her a symbol of an entire national crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These images did more than document suffering. They helped build public support for the government relief programs that followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Can a single photograph still change public policy the way these did in the 1930s?<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the 1930s, a combination of drought and poor farming practices turned huge stretches of the American Great Plains into dry, wind-blown wasteland. Hundreds of thousands of families, unable to farm land that had literally blown away, packed what they could and headed west, hoping for work in California&#8217;s fields. Photographers documented the migration in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vintage-photos","tag-breaking"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}