Home Movie: Charles Edward Smith Collection: 000463
Ephemeral film · 19 min
Synopsis
Historically significant documentation of internal migration within the U.S., showing the Okies, among other migrant communities, people who had fled dust bowl conditions in Oklahoma. In this reel that group and migrants from cities and from Mexico and elsewhere arrive in California's Central Valley in the 1930s. With documentation of U.S. federal New Deal infrastructure including the Farm Security Administration responding to the conditions generated by the mass migration and the Shafter's…
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