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    Soil conservation practices were not widely employed by farmers during this era, so when a seven-year drought began in 1931, followed by the coming of dust storms in 1932, many of the farms literally dried up and blew away creating what became known as the "Dust Bowl." Driven by the Great Depression, drought, and dust storms, thousands of farmers packed up their families and made the difficult journey to California where they hoped to find work

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    • Arrival in California did not put an end to the migrants' travels.
      Their lives were characterized by transience. In an attempt to maintain
      a steady income, workers had to follow the harvest around the state.
      When potatoes were ready to be picked, the migrants needed to be where
      the potatoes were. The same principle applied to harvesting cotton,
      lemons, oranges, peas, and other crops. For this reason, migrant
      populations were most dense in agricultural centers. The territory
      covered by Todd and Sonkin in this project ranged from as far south as
      El Rio, just north of Oxnard, to as far north as Yuba City, north of
      Sacramento. Much of the documentation was concentrated in the San
      Joaquin Valley.
    • The migrants represented in Voices from
      the Dust Bowl came primarily from Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and
      Missouri. Most were of Anglo-American descent with family and cultural
      roots in the poor rural South. In the homes they left, few had been
      accustomed to living with modern conveniences such as electricity and
      indoor plumbing.
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    • Between 315,000 and 400,000 residents of Oklahoma
      and other Plains states moved west during the 1930s due to the Great
      Depression and a severe regional drought. These crises caused a
      temporary acceleration of a steadier, larger population shift.
    • fewer then 16000 people came from the actual dust bowl region, most came from other places in drought but the huge dust storms gave the migration a name
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  • The Dust Bowl Migration: Poverty Stories, Race Stories

    • The
      Dust Bowl migration  of the 1930s plays an important and complicated role in
      the way Americans talk about the history of poverty and public policy in
      their country. For almost seventy years the story of white families from
      Oklahoma and neighboring states making their way to California in the midst
      of the Great Depression

    • Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas.




                   Those states had suffered greatly in the early 1930s, both from
      escalating joblessness and a severe drought that for several years denied
      much of the Great Plains sufficient rain to produce its usual complement of
      wheat and cotton. The drought had also produced a spectacular ecological
      disaster. Wind driven dust storms had arisen in a broad swath of counties in
      western Kansas and the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles on several occasions
      between 1933 and 1935, each time filling the air with millions of tons of
      finely plowed top soil and blackening skies for a thousand miles as the
      clouds moved east. The dust storms brought press attention and later
      government intervention to the affected area, soon known as the "Dust Bowl."

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