Migrant stories have two parts: the leaving of an old life, and the building of a new one. Pat Rush's "old life" started in Arkansas. She was born in 1935 and her family worked as laborers picking ...

Voices From the Dust Bowl: Gain perspectives into the lives of workers living in federal migrant work camps in Central California in the 1940s through historical materials that range from ...

Rush’s family was part of the Dust Bowl-era migration to California in the 1940s and lived in migrant worker camps. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) By Hailey Branson-Potts ...

Sanora Babb with unidentified migrant workers Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas Libraries When The Grapes of Wrath came out 77 years ago, it was an instant hit.

You'd be hard put to find a better example of work ethic than the migrant workers who came west during the Great Depression. That is, unless you're talking about the ...

During the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, ... And today there are a lot of Mexican migrant workers in her area who do field work just like she used to do.

Sanora Babb with unidentified migrant workers Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas Libraries When The Grapes of Wrath came out 77 years ago, it was an instant hit. The story of a destitute ...