Children of the Dust Bowl : : the True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
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Youth level.
Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and were forced to live in a federal labor camp and discusses the school that was built for their children.
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Timely submitted by godzilla on August 28, 2016, 4:38pm Can be used in the classroom to show the history of how migrant workers were treated during the depression. Many parallels can be found to how immigrants are treated today, Well researched and the photographs enhance the empathy for these children.
PUBLISHED
New York : Crown, c1992.
Year Published: 1992
Description: 85 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0517587823 :
SUBJECTS
Children of migrant laborers -- History -- Arvin -- 20th century.
Droughts -- Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century.
Dust storms -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Great Plains.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Southwestern States.
Migrant labor -- California.
Depressions -- 1929.
Migrant agricultural laborers -- California.
Nineteen thirties.