A Statewide Effort

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Image courtesy of Texas Agricultural Extension Service, "Farm Labor Program in Texas 1943-1947," California Revealed, 1947, https://californiarevealed.org/do/7e58a46d-7ce2-4702-b825-a740f22dab3e.   
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Many cities across Texas built camps similar to the Waco Farm Labor Camp to accommodate migrant workers. While the camps varied in size and layout, all provided somewhere to stay, a place to cook and eat, and a lot for workers’ pickup trucks.

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By Maria Petrolia
The rapid rise of migrant labor in Texas in the 1940s brought large numbers of laborers to Waco. To accommodate this new situation, the city of Waco acquired funds to build the Waco Farm Labor Camp, a…