Kevin Kukel of San Francisco looks over a display inside a historic recreational building at Weedpatch Camp during the Dust Bowl Days festival in Bakersfield in 2019. The camp housed people who ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Fleeing the Great Depression and a drought unprecedented in American history, a vast wave of Oklahomans and Texans dubbed "Okies" loaded everything they could onto crowded vehicles ...

No matter their state of origin, during the 1930s all newcomers were dubbed Okies in CA No matter their state of origin, all newcomers were dubbed Okies when they crossed the California border. Woody ...

The Dust Bowl migrants were just one of many groups who have worked the farms of California in the past two centuries, usually for low pay: American Indians worked on Spanish mission farms near the ...

Forced by the drought of 1936 to abandon their farm, this Oklahoma family headed to California. At the time of this photograph, they were within a day's travel of their destination: Bakersfield, Calif ...

"They were hungry, and they were fierce. And they had hoped to find a home, and they found only hatred."—The Grapes of Wrath Like the fictional Joad family in The Grapes of Wrath, I'd dreamt of eating ...

Re “The Black Okies,” (Aug. 25-27): These stories by Mark Arax about the pilgrimage of a great people from Oklahoma to a hard, rural setting in the middle of California are the finest examples of ...

They flooded into California fleeing poverty in their homeland. The public denigrated them as dirty and crime-prone — a threat to the good life. Authorities harassed the newcomers out of city limits, ...