Testimony of Otis Nation to the Tolan Committee on Internal Migration Year: 1940
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844209.book-part-033

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Abstract

This report is made in behalf of the members of the Oklahoma Tenant Farmers’ Union, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations. I feel that I am in a position to give a true picture of the migrant problem, not only because I have worked in their organization, but even more, because I have been both a tenant farmer and a migratory agricultural worker myself. I was born and raised on a farm near Calvin, Okla., and I, too, with my family of five, have gone down the twentieth century trail of tears, Highway 66, to California and Arizona. I would like in this report to outline the main causes of these migrations of farmers and to recommend actions necessary to rehabilitate them.

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