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This image is a picture of a woman named Florence Thompson taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936. Commonly known as the "Migrant Mother" photo, this image shows Thompson surrounded by three of her children in California during the Great Depression.

This photograph depicts a 32 year old mother moving from the east to the west due to food insecurity. The farms in the east began to fail, due to the dust bowl and overuse of the land, so the government created a program called the FSA (Farm Security…

California farms didn't use only whites, but other migrants (including immigrants). They all worked together to make a profit off their crops so they could eat and live happy lives.

This photograph depicts an 18 year old mother who has been forced to move from her home in Oklahoma because of a failed farm. This was common at this time, and a lot of people moved west to places like California to try again. This mother probably…