A "migration of despair": Unemployment, the search for work, and migration to farms during the great depression

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 554-567

  Boyd, Robert L ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1111/1540-6237.00100     Document Type: Article

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