[applause] and on woody guthrie.stration and these were great places to be. they were democratically run close self-governing, will provide it for, they were clean and sanitary read the only problem was it wasn't nearly enough of them to cope with the magnitude of the dust bowl crisis in california's of the majority of the camps that he would have visited were just basically slums. they called them hooverville anywhere across the country they were hooverville named after the president on whose watch the depression was ushered in. and these are places where you may be headed families of say eight or ten getting by on $3 a week between them picking cotton in the san waukee mali. back east president roosevelt actually declared if i went to work in a factory the first thing i would do would join the union. which sounded pretty good coming from the oval office i don't think any president had gone so far to enforce the rights of labor to organize. but even with that kind of backing the the reality for the radical migrants

[applause] and on woody guthrie.ent, the security administration and these were great places to be. they were democratically run close self-governing, will provide it for, they were clean and sanitary read the only problem was it wasn't nearly enough of them to cope with the magnitude of the dust bowl crisis in california's of the majority of the camps that he would have visited were just basically slums. they called them hooverville anywhere across the country they were hooverville named after the president on whose watch the depression was ushered in. and these are places where you may be headed families of say eight or ten getting by on $3 a week between them picking cotton in the san waukee mali. back east president roosevelt actually declared if i went to work in a factory the first thing i would do would join the union. which sounded pretty good coming from the oval office i don't think any president had gone so far to enforce the rights of labor to organize. but even with that kind of backing the the reality f

[applause] and on woody guthrie.he security administration and these were great places to be. they were democratically run close self-governing, will provide it for, they were clean and sanitary read the only problem was it wasn't nearly enough of them to cope with the magnitude of the dust bowl crisis in california's of the majority of the camps that he would have visited were just basically slums. they called them hooverville anywhere across the country they were hooverville named after the president on whose watch the depression was ushered in. and these are places where you may be headed families of say eight or ten getting by on $3 a week between them picking cotton in the san waukee mali. back east president roosevelt actually declared if i went to work in a factory the first thing i would do would join the union. which sounded pretty good coming from the oval office i don't think any president had gone so far to enforce the rights of labor to organize. but even with that kind of backing the the reality for the

but i went do to the village vanguard and saw for the first time woody guthrie and and... >> rose: folkusic folk music. and i saw ledbell lay week or two later and i found in this place where i needed to reside. this was the place i needed to be so i got into thelibrary of congress, i began to listen night after night to pete seeger, to the folk, everything to do with folk music and i tried to find my own place in it. i was not of the church. i didn't come from the black tradition except from the caribbean and i hadn't even paid attention to that fact now that i was in the world of folk music. but i've put the repertoire together and went to the vanguard and on my opening night i was just stunned with w the way in which the audience received me and from that night until this moment i never, ever looked back. and it had not... it was not just the fact that i had discovered folk mic, i'd found a culture. i found a life. i found people whose fashion and whose deeper essences were rooted in social concern. it was about peopl rooted in songs and conditions and for me it was paul robeson. this ma