Great Depression Migrant Workers

Farm Life and Hardships in the 1930s
A neat site about the 1930s and how the Depression affected farmers from a farm museum in Nebraska.

Federal Art Project
from Library of Congress page

Hispanic Migrant Workers in CA in the 1930s

Mexican-American Migrant Workers, CA, 1930s
Background info and photos from the Oakland Museum of CA

Music of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl Migrants
Good background info and links to music from Library of Congress

Music of the Great Depression: Manufacturing Memory
Set up like an old-fashioned jukebox, this U. of Virginia site has a good collection of 1930s music.

Okie Migrations
From a farm museum in Nebraska.

PBS Tails from the Rails
Interviews with people who left their homes as teenagers in the Great Depression to "ride the rails," crossing the country by hitchhiking on trains.

PBS: Mass Exodus from the Plains
This article gives background on the reception that the Dust Bowl migrants received when they got to California. No primary sources (except a few quotations) but good background info.