With each article Steinbeck’s clarity on this fact grew more sharply defined.
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“The new migrants.,” John Steinbeck wrote on assignment for the San Francisco News, “are here to stay.They can be citizens of the highest type, or they can be an army driven by suffering and hatred to take what they need.” Steinbeck continues: “On their future treatment will depend which course they will be forced to take.” The year was 1936 and Steinbeck was on commission to write what would become known as The Harvest Gypsies, a series of articles about California’s desperate migrant farmworker situation during the height of the Great Depression.
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