Ruby's Hope: A Story of How the Famous “Migrant Mother” Photograph Became the Face of the Great Depression

Ruby's Hope

A Story of How the Famous “Migrant Mother” Photograph Became the Face of the Great Depression

2019 • 40 pages

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Ruby and her family have to leave their home in Oklahoma. Everything has dried up, everything except the hope of Ruby's mother.

But when the family arrives in California, the pea crop has frozen and their car is out of gas. What will happen to the family now?

Along comes a photographer who takes a picture of Ruby and her mother, and hope is alive again.

It's the story of the famous “Migrant Mother” photo.

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