FWAF EP13s1 Marvelous Rodgers: Migrant Child

Marvelous Rodgers grew up in Winter Garden, Florida. In this podcast, she describes the pressure her father, a fruit contractor, was under to clear the fields, the help she provided her father in his work, and the distaste for oranges a life of smelling them constantly might produce. 

Farmworker Association of Florida, a SPOHP Podcast Series

If you would like learn more on these issues read Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food by Dale Finley Slongwhite.

Interview conducted and podcasted by Brittany Hibbert. Intro and Outro by Grace Chun.

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Music: "Bus at Dawn by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).

Farmworker Association of Florida Collection at University of Florida Samuel Proctor Oral History Program FAF 018 Marvelous Rodgers.

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