On the Dirty Plate Trail: Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps Book

"Migrant Farmer"   Dorothy Babb     xii
Preface     xv
Acknowledgments     xix
Introduction: The Babb Sisters     1
The Dirty Plate Trail     11
Field Notes     47
Oklahoma Panhandle, 1934     49
"Triple A, Dusted Out"     52
Note on the government's AAA program to reduce hog production and corn acreage     53
The Dispossessed     53
Labor Conditions     55
Farmer-Industrialist     55
Labor Protest     56
Organization of labor     59
Government Camps     60
Fascist characteristics of the campaign against the migratory workers in California     60
Visalia 2/24/38     62
Labor Contractor     64
Kinds of camps in California     65
Birthrate     66
In answer to the frequent threat...     67
In the fields, 1938     68
Large Landowners     68
Rag Town     72
Refugee Needs     72
A day in the camps     74
San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938     75
Thirty-seven varieties of religon...     77
Striking Workers,Angry Growers     78
March, 1938     82
October 29, 1938     83
Two stories of labor spies     85
Notes for a Novel     87
Reportage     91
Migratory Farm Workers in California (1938)     92
There Ain't No Food (1938)     103
Farmers without Farms (New Masses, 21 June 1938)     110
We Sure Struck It Tuff: The Storm     116
Dealing in Major Catastrophes (New Masses, 23 May 1939)     177
Letter to Dorothy Babb (May 1938)     123
Dust Bowl Tales     131
The Dark Earth (The Magazine, Nov.-Dec. 1934)     133
Morning in Imperial Valley (Kansas Magazine, 1941)     141
Whose Names Are Unknown     146
The Dust Bowl as Site of Memory     151
Epilogue: Letters from the Fields     157
Notes     167
Bibliography     165
Index     173