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Oral History Program Interview: Talmage Lee Collins

Collins was born in 1910 in Jasper, Newton County, Arkansas. He and his family settled in McFarland-Delano, California in 1935. Collins recollects the prevalence of company labor camps and what they were like, jackrabbit drives, that The Grapes of Wrath exaggerated migrants' issues, violence and the Ku Klux Klan, the effects of the National Recovery Act and other New Deal programs, making moonshine as a way to make money, the evolution of farm mechanization, that the Dust Bowl was man-made, and rags to riches stories of prominent members of Kern County.

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