Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
"Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" was a Woody Guthrie protest song detailing the crash of a plane deporting 28 Mexican farm workers from California back to Mexico on January 29, 1948 and the racist mistreatment of the passengers before and after the accident.
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Woody Guthrie - Protest song - Crash of a plane - California - Mexico - January 29 - 1948
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Guthrie was reportedly struck by the fact that radio and newspaper coverage of the event did not give the victims' names, but referred to them as "just deportees". Guthrie originally wrote it as a poem, and a decade later Martin Hoffman added music and turned it into a song. The song was popularized at the time by Pete Seeger.
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