Mon, Sept 27 – Okies On The Road
by Dr. H - September 24th, 2021
Background Reading:
Read for Monday, review for Wednesday
Excerpt from John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Short overview of photographs taken by the Farm Security Administration (FSA)
Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” Photographs in the FSA Collection (Library of Congress Research Guide) [More at the Dorothea Lange Digital Archive]
Eschner, “Meet 10 Depression-Era Photographers who Captured the Struggle of America,” Smithsonian Magazine (2017)
Boxer, “Whitewashing the Great Depression,” The Atlantic (Dec 2020)
Past and Present Connections:
1867: On This Date, Worcester Office of Freedmen’s Bureau opens
NYT: “Liberty Village,” tent city in New Jersey for Afghan evacuees (9/25/21)