Description
In the 1930s, almost a half million Americans, victims of the great depression, drought and great dust storms migrated to California in hopes of a better life. Instead, they discovered they were considered an unwanted burden by many Californians. In desperation, they worked for very low wages picking cotton, grapes, peas or whatever needed harvesting. Exploited by growers that kept them mired in poverty, many farmworkers tried to form unions and strike. The growers responded with violence and strikers were injured or even killed. John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath and more recently Kristin Hannah in her novel The Four Winds brought to life the hardship endured by the Dust Bowl refugees. We explore the true story of the Dust Bowl refugees that changed California.
