During the Great Depression, nearly 400,000 Oklahomans, Arkansans, Texans, Kansans, and Missourians migrated to California. As a result their children flooded California schools, especially in the farming communities of the San Joaquin and Sacramento . . .

During the 1930s approximately 400,000 jobless individuals, also known as Okies, sought work in California. many found temporary work when California's growers needed thousands of workers to pick fruit or chop cotton. But when the growers no longer ne . . .