Featured Exhibits

The Okie migration by Raphaël Maziane and Alban Deluche

This exhibit describes the exodus of the Okies during the Dust Bowl years in 1930s.The Okies fled from the Dust Bowl to California.

The Dust Bowl is a very big storm of dust. This storm destroys the fields, the crops, the houses, the belongings of farmers, everything who are on its way. As a consequence, it becomes impossible to raise crops on the dust-covered land and the people have to tie handkerchiefs over their faces when they go out. So the farmers must go in another land. They went to California.

Exhibit of the migrants farmers exodus, by Michel and Laurent

Hello everyone, today we will present on exhibit of the migrants farmers exodus.So, if the farmers make a journey it's because the Dust Bowl destroyed their farms. The Dust Bowl is a very big storm : the soil is very dry because of a drought, strong winds are blowing hard, so the Dust rises up from the ground ans is blown away. It's cover the fields, the crops, the houses, everything. As a consequences it become impossible to raise crop on the Dust-Cover the land wich gives the farmers ans their families become homeless ans jobless.

The Great Okie Migration, by Mattéo Mekboub and Lara De Viveiros

Welcome in the new online exhibit.
Now, you will discover and follow the Okies lifes through many black and white photographs taken by historians photographers, like Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor.

The history of Okies began in 1930s with the economic crisis of Wall Street.
Because of the crisis, most american people lost his job and they didn't have enough money in order to live in good conditions.
This period is nicknamed “The Great Depression”.

Picture about the Great Okie migration by Romain Lukusa and Ethan Cipreo

In the 1930's, during the Great Depression, a huge dust storm ravaged the states of Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. This dust storm had been called "The dust bowl". The causes of the dust Bowl is a drought which drained the soil of this land which became dusty.The strong winds that were blowing hard there blown away the dust from the ground leading to a dust Storm.
The dust covered everything, the fields, the houses... So, it became impossible to raise crops on this dust covered land. It caused the farmers to loose their jobs.

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