The movement of masses of people from one place to another is tearing nations apart politically, economically and emotionally ...

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Some camps had their own schools for the migrant workers. Rush would later go to grade school at the Weedpatch Camp, which was memorialized in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.

The government camp In response to the influx of migrants to California, the federal government built a series of camps to provide safe housing, clean drinking water and other services. Some camps had ...

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 ...

Pat Rush (right) with her brother in Arkansas circa late 1930s. 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.