An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion in the Thirties
- ISBN-10
- 0300011601
- ISBN-13
- 9780300011609
- Category
- Agricultural laborers
- Pages
- 144
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1969
- Publisher
- New Haven : Published for the Oakland Museum [by] Yale University Press
- Authors
- Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Oakland Museum
Description
The book documents the rural poverty of the Great Depression exodus that brought over 300,000 migrants to California in search of farmwork.
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