Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps
by
Sanora Babb, Dorothy Babb
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices was a relatively brief interlude in the history of migrant agricultural labor. Yet it attracted wide attention through the publication of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and the images of Farm Security Administration...