Migrant!: The Story of Danny Broome

1930. The depression. A young man leaves New York and finds more than a job. Friendship, love and the occasional bootlegger and bank robber

It's 1930, less than a year since the Great Depression began. In large cities, like New York, thousands of people lost their jobs as the economy of the nation shut down.

Young men, like Danny Broome, took whatever work they could find, usually at a dollar a day. Moving out of the crowded cities was sometimes the only way to survive, and Migrant work offer...