JAMES GREGORY: Well, California has been rebuilt continually by the people coming to it, and the biggest impact of the so-called Dust Bowl Migration was the contribution of lots of white ...

The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history. By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains states; of those, 200,000 moved to California. When they reached the ...

Flamming, Douglas. Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006). Gregory, James. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture ...