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Oral History Program Interview: Clara Beddo Davis

Born in Pauls Valley, Garvin County, Oklahoma on May 13, 1918, Davis and her family would later land in the Arvin Labor Camp in California on August 21, 1937. Her experiences include perspectives on tent and cabin housing, her family's resistance to unionizing, strikes in the area, why the Sunset Labor Camp was a good place for people to live, what she learned about ditch/tent cities, labor abuses towards farmworkers, what welfare did for people, her definition of "Okie" as degrading because of the negative stereotype, and why The Grapes of Wrath is exaggerated.

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