Esperanza Rising: Voices From The Dust Bowl
Charles Todd sitting with his recording equipment while surrounded by Mexican migrants.
Between 1940 and 1941, Charles Todd and Robert Sonkin of the Department of Public Speaking at City College (in New York), set out to document the everyday life of residents of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in Central California.
Particularly interesting is the live interview recordings the men were able to retrieve from migrant farm workers Jose Flores and Augustus Martinez. Below are links to audio clips from these interviews.
Jose Flores
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Interview about FSA camp governance, camp work, non-FSA migrant camps, labor issues, and attitudes toward "okies."
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Interview about the Mexican family, discrimination against Mexicans, and life in the FSA camp.
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Augustus Martinez
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Interview about lemon picking, and the FSA camp.
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Interview about the camp closing, discrimination, labor issues, efforts to organize youth, and citizenship.
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Siri said
at 2:06 pm on Apr 25, 2011
This page needs a link to the original source for those audio files.
Siri
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