Walter Stiern Library

Special Topic Articles on the Dust Bowl Migrant Experience

-- A School of Their Own: Educating Okie Children in 1930s California

-- A “Flat Tired People”: The Health of California’s Okies During the 1930s

Each article in the Special Topic series introduces the reader to a specific aspect of the Dust Bowl migrant experience. Interwoven into each article are key primary and secondary documents as well as excerpts from the migrant interviews that are part of the California Odyssey oral history project.

If you have questions or comments about one of the “Special Topic” articles, contact librarian Christy Gavin (cgavin@csub.edu).