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Aug 24, 2020 6 min

FWAF EP07 Florida Bob

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In this podcast, “Florida Bob” Griffin describes his life as a farmworker from Apopka, Florida. Topics include his blind father, who was nonetheless a successful crew leader, his childhood picking beans to help support his family and purchase school clothes, and his time moving between New York to pick apples and Florida to pick oranges. 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 McLane Edwards. Intro and Outro by Grace Chun. https://floridafarmworkers.org/ 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 012 Robbert Griffin. Ways to connect with us at SPOHP: instagram.com/spohp; twitter.com/spohp; youtube.com/spohp111; facebook.com/oralhistoryprogram; phone #: (352) 392-7168; email: [email protected]; website: oral.history.ufl.edu

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