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From Missouri To California – Drought Refugees Await Their Orange-Picking Jobs

Can you imagine feeling like an intruder in your own country? That was the lot of many Missouri-born families who were forced to flee for the Pacific Coast when their livelihoods were erased during the Dust Bowl. Such industrious people were regarded as freeloaders and received frosty receptions from Californian locals. This was just one of many scenes depicted in the Great Depression, where most Americans had to do what they could to survive. You were considered fortunate if you could get a job working in the fields for minimal salaries.

From Missouri To California