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Grampa Joad, a feisty old man who complains bitterly that he does not want to leave his land, dies on the road shortly after the familyâs departure. Dilapidated cars and trucks, loaded down with scrappy possessions, clog Highway 66: it seems the entire country is in flight to the Promised Land of California.
Her father, Andrew Arthur Allen, of Cherokee descent (d. 1984), was an orthodontist. Rashad's siblings are jazz-musician brother Tex (Andrew Arthur Allen, Jr., born 1945), sister Debbie Allen (born 1950), an actress, choreographer, and director, and brother Hugh Allen (a real estate banker in North Carolina).