You may know that Woody Guthrie despised Donald Trump's father for his racist real estate practices and wrote bitterly about them in some unpublished work.
Before he lived in a Trump-owned apartment in Brooklyn, however, Guthrie spent many years between the wars in Los Angeles. He wrote songs about those whose voices too often went unheard: the working people, the Dust Bowl refugees, the poor, the homeless, and the people of Skid Row.
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Woody Guthrie and Skid Row in Los Angeles by Darryl Holter (KCET)
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