Florence Owens Thompson on earning money to support her kids

Quote:

“I worked in hospitals. I tended bar. I cooked. I worked in the fields. I done a little bit of everything to make a living for my kids.”

– Florence Owens Thompson

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Notes:

• This photo of Florence is known as Migrant Mother. It was taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936.
• Read a snapshot biography of Florence Perkins, who led the implementation of important reforms that brought the U.S. out of the Great Depression.
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“Florence Owens Thompson on earning money to support her kids” sources: Lange, Dorothea, photographer. Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California. March. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2017762891/>.