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Joe Richman

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The story of the American migrant - from Dust Bowl to a new life

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By Joe Richman
| WMOT-FM (Murfreesboro, TN) Verified
Migrant stories have two parts: the leaving of an old life, and the building of a new one. Pat Rush’s “old life” started in Arkansas. She was born in 1935 and her family worked as laborers picking cotton. It was hard work. By the time she was seven, she was working in the cotton fields too. “I remember dirt running down my face, snot running out my nose, and I was wet and sweaty,” she told Radio Diaries. “I was a little fat girl and I always had a bad haircut or something.
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