July 6, 1936, Route 66, New Mexico. This is Martha Evans, 32. She had been walking for three days. Her husband died of tuberculosis in Oklahoma in May. The farm was foreclosed. She took the six kids and a Radio Flyer wagon and started west for California. The twins in the wagon were 11 months old. The boys walking were 6, 5, 4, and 3. Her dress was torn on barbed wire. Her leg was cut and infected. She wrapped it with a feed sack. She had $1.60 in her pocket.
A photographer from the Resettlement Administration saw them and pulled over. He offered her a ride. She said no. She said if she took a ride now, the kids would expect one every time they were tired. She gave him her name and kept walking. The photo ran in newspapers across the country. Donations came to a PO box in Barstow. She got $200 and a bus ticket. She made it to Bakersfield and picked grapes. All six kids lived. Three went to college. Martha died in 1978. The wagon is in the Smithsonian.
And the world was going through a really warm period, with some of the hottest temperatures on record. Those people really suffered, unlike many of our whining bludgers today .
Must be that white privilege I hear about all the time.
The children in the trolley are probably sleeping on any spare clothing they had.
No other possessions that I can see.
How is the photographer in the photo?
” … does not compute … does not compute
this can not have happened
according to our teacher Mizzz Woketard !!! ”
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