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Oral History Program Interview: Elizabeth May Garber Day

Day was born in Lone Star, Douglas County, Kansas in 1921, but moved to Franklin, Nebraska the next year. She and her family moved to Bakersfield, California in 1932. She informs about her Father worked in WPA, New Deal policies and their effects on farmers, accepting relief as devastating to her family, that the banks would not loan money to "Okies," the slum-like camps, why people thought "Okies" were different and stereotyped, and claims that The Grapes of Wrath was very accurate.