Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood

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Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures, Virtual
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During World War II, a group of potato farmers opened the first migrant labor camp in Suffolk County to house farmworkers from Jamaica. Over the next twenty years, more than one hundred camps of various sizes would be built throughout the region.