In 1921, the American Relief Association sent food aid to Russia, where millions of citizens were suffering from a devastating famine. Browse this gallery of the human story — see the Russians who endured and the Americans tasked with delivering salvation.
Read an excerpt from the New York Times, dated December 26, 1919 titled: "WANT $300,000,000 TO AID CENTRAL EUROPE: Lenroot Proposes That Hoover Be Called to Advise Senate Committee."
Read an excerpt from the New York Times, dated September 21, 1922, titled: SAYS 1,000,000 FACE STARVATION IN RUSSIA, Colonel Haskell Cables That Moscow Government Will be Unable to Handle Situation.
While tales of friendships among vagabonds that transcended race abound, many African American vagabonds recounted being made to feel like outcasts among outcasts.
Born on a Nebraska farm in 1916, Donald Newhouser rode the rails from 1935 to 1938, following the harvests through the West: the hay fields in Colorado, potato picking in Idaho, apples in Washington, hops in Oregon.
