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World Service,19 Dec 2001,24 mins

Voices from the Dust Bowl

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Migrant workers fleeing the Dust Bowl in California 1940 were recorded at the government welfare camps they escaped to. The recordings include council meetings, music gatherings and storytelling and are preserved in the Library of Congress.

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