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  • Life could be rough for black Okies Jul 7 2006 12:03 PM

    CJ Dust Bowl_Willie Johnson

    I was born in 1914 in Weleetka, Okla., the eldest of 10 children. There are only four of us living today — one brother, two sisters and myself.

  • When Dad was down to his last $2.20 Jun 1 2006 2:05 PM

    CJ DUST BOWL. SHELTONS

    I was born Dec. 11, 1933, in Pittsburg County, in a log house three miles from the small town of Scipio, Okla. (about 17 miles north of McAlester).

  • Finding prosperity in Kern County May 31 2006 12:55 PM

    CJ DUST BOWL. EAST

    My father was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. I was born in 1929, the year of the stock-market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression.

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