Mark A. Torres

The little-known history of the Suffolk County camps where migrant workers lived in squalor during and after WWII-includes photos. During World War II, a group of potato farmers opened the first migrant labor camp in Suffolk County to house farmworkers from Jamaica. Over the next twenty years, more than one hundred camps of various sizes would be built throughout the region. Thousands of migrant workers lured by promises of good wages and decent...