Dust Bowl-era labor camp set to become a California state park

Reduced to extreme poverty by the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and unfair labor practices, thousands of families from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and elsewhere streamed into California in the 1930s and ’40s in search of shelter and work and a life of basic dignity. Path to Full Story on The Bakersfield Californian

Posted: Wednesday Apr-29-2026 8:50 PM

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