Dorothea Lange made social injustice the core focus of her life and art. Her passion made her travel throughout the Great Depression-era United States, focusing on impoverished migrant communities, migrant workers, displaced farmers, tenant farmers and sharecroppers in the American South during Depression.
Her images have had a major impact on the public's perceptions of injustice across the world by helping the country focus on poverty, sharecroppers, tenant farmers, farmworkers, homelessness, child labor, labor exploitation, racism, women empowerment, unemployment etcetera...