Something about the migrant labor camp spooked my mother. Then she learned its dark history

'Segregation was very prevalent. We were not allowed to live within the white city limits of Caldwell. We had to drive 10 miles out of the city limit...This place had been a prison camp for someone.'

'This encampment was surrounded by barbed wire. Our family had unknowingly become part of a long line of laborers that included white Depression-era migrants and Japanese Americans uprooted from their homes.'

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