Who is Tom Joad?

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30. Bakersfield Californians they are our tea party people

I use to live were the Grapes of Wrath movie and book takes place. Weedpatch Camp is still there. It's called Wheatpach in the movie
The book was banned in Bakersfield schools because it made the growers look bad.
The Okie kids were not wanted in Bakersfield schools because they were so poor and ragged. The Bakersfield Superintendent of Schools built a school for the migrant kids that lived at Weedpatch Camp. They built the first school swimming pool. He bought an old C-46 airplane and had airplane mechanics taught and other trades so the kids didn't have to follow in their parent's footpath. After a while parents of Bakersfield wanted to send their kids to the school to learn a trade.
The school is still there.
This is in a little book titled Children of the Dust Bowl.
The building in the movie where the Joads truck hits a speed bump going into the migrant camp is still there at Weedpatch camp, it use to be the post office. Every year in October Weedpatch Camp has Dust Bowl Days.
Californians (Dorothea Lange especially) were responsible for making the plight of the migrants know nationally. That's why the Fed Government built the migrant camps.