“The unique nature of California agriculture requires that these migrants exist [..] Thus, in California we find a curious attitude toward a group that makes our agriculture successful. The migrants are needed, and they are hated.”

John Steinbeck writing in ‘The Harvest Gypsies’, for The San Francisco News, October 5, 1936

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