In #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) migratory labor camp. Family, mother, father and eleven children, originally from #Oklahoma, where he had been a tenant farmer. Came to #California in 1936 after drought. Since then have been traveling from crop to crop in #California following the harvest. Six of the children attend school wherever the family stops long enough with mother and father. February 23, two of the family had been lucky and "got a place" a day's work) in the peas on #theSinclairRanch. Father had earned one dollar and seventy-three cents for ten hours a day. Oldest daughter had earned one dollar and twenty-five cents. From these earnings had to provide transportation to the fields #twentymiles away. Mother wants to return to #Oklahoma, father unwilling. She says, "I want to go back home where we can live happy, live decent, and grow what we eat." #Brawley, #ImperialValley, #California

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