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It’s probably one of the most famous images of the American Depression – known as “Migrant Mother,” it was taken of 32-year-old Florence Owens Thompson by photographer Dorothea Lange in Nipomo, CA in 1936. Today CNN.com has an interview with Thompson’s daughter, Katherine McIntosh, now 77, who is on the left of the photo. Rather than help the family, bringing light to their plight, McIntosh says, “We were ashamed of it. We didn’t want no one to know who we were.”

Read the full article here.