Image: Roadside camp of migrant workers, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, 1939. Photographer: Russel Lee
The frustration, fear, and sadness of an Okie life on the road found enduring expression in the folk songs of Woody Guthrie. Guthrie adopted the pose of wandering minstrel and traveled by boxcars, hitchiking, or just plain walking throughout most
of the United States. His songs champion the down-and-out migrant workers, miners, steelworkers, and all other victims of hard fortune. Within Guthrie's vision, all the people turned out onto the road become a brotherhood of the dispossessed.
