During the 1940s, many migrant farm worker families lived in government-sponsored camps as they moved from place to placeCREDIT: Hemmig, Robert. "Group of Children Posing Under Sign That Reads "U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Security Administration Farm Workers Community." 1941. Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941, Library of Congress
1. What do you see in this photo?
2. Do you think these children have parents? where are they or could be?
3. In what social class do you think these children fall into and why?
4. Why would this photograph be taken in front of these billboard label?
5. If you were in one of these child's shoes what would you be thinking/feeling?
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