Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp

Type

Book

Authors

Jerry Stanley

ISBN 10

0517880946

ISBN 13

9780517880944

Tags

1900s, School, United States, Education & Reference, Disasters, Explore the World, Emigrants & Immigrants, Depression, Dust Bowl

Description

Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field. - from Amzon

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