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Oral History Interview Ethel Oleta Wever Belezzuoli
Belezzuoli was born in Marlow, Stephens Co., Oklahoma in 1919. She and her family came to Porterville, California in the late 1930s after time spent in the Imperial Valley. Her interview provides descriptions of dust storms, her and other migrants reactions to discrimination they received, her family's housing in California in the 1930s, that migrants were ashamed to utilize the WPA or other forms of welfare, experiences regarding employee/employer relations, what she heard about strikes and organizing, how The Grapes of Wrath effected the "Okie" stereotype, and what it meant to be called an "Okie."
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