Mexican Migrant Children

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     During the 1940s, many migrant farm worker
     families lived in government-sponsored camps
     as they moved from place to place.
Migrant housing, Fresno, California.



 
Migrant children in tent camp,
Nipomo, California,1935.
Migrant farm workers picking
peas in Delano, Calif., 1966

 
      Barefoot children of migrant
      farm workers at a camp in
      California, on April 8, 1965.
     Raoul Martinez, 12, scoops water from a camp
     irrigation ditch,  65 miles northeast of Las Vegas,
     Nevada, on Feb 25, 1959.

 
First Day in Grapes Migrant child, Ogden, Utah, 1987.