Dorothea Lange’s iconic California image ‘Migrant Mother’ resonates in today’s social turmoil

Dorothea Lange was driving by a pea pickers’ camp on the California coast when she stumbled across a weary mother and her many children huddled in a lean-to.

It was 1936, during the throes of the Great Depression, and Lange took out her camera.

The image she titled “Migrant Mother” became the late...