Resources:

Library of Congress article

Florida Memory, Division of Library & Information Services

Questions:

• What are two of the reasons people became migrant workers during the 1930s?
• Songs and stories depicted California as what kind of place?
• Why were migrant workers often referred to as “Oakies?”
• What did these migrant workers make their homes out of?
• What did states like Florida use to limit the number of migrant workers crossing the state border?

Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, age 32, a mother of seven children, in Nipomo, California, March 1936.
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