Children of the Dust Bowl

Studio: Miramax Films

Synopsis:

Centers on a schoolteacher in 1939 in Bakersfield, Calif., and a group of "Okie" immigrant children who were barred from the California school system as being undesirable to educate. The teacher and the children walked into the desert and built their own school, using whatever materials they could find.

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