agricultural laborers

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agricultural laborers

C?esar Ch?avez

2006
Tells the story of Cesar Chavez, a Mexican American farm worker who fought for the rights of migrant agricultural laborers and created the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA).

Reaching out

2008
Francisco Jimenez, the son of Mexican immigrants, describes the challenges he faced as a student at Santa Clara University in California in the 1960s.

Farmers' and farm workers' movements

social protest in American agriculture
1995
Presents an overview of the history of farmer and farm labor movements, and examines the specifics of such movements at various times in American history, from the Colonial Period to the early 1990s.

Esperanza rising

2001
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

The circuit

stories from the life of a migrant child
1997
Presents several intertwined stories of a family of Mexican American farm workers as they move from camp to camp, adding members to their family along the way.

Esperanza renace

2002
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

Reaching out

2008
The author describes his experiences as a young immigrant pursuing his education during the 1950s and 1960s.

Voices from the fields

children of migrant farmworkers tell their stories
1993
Photographs, poems, and interviews with children reveal the hardships and hopes of Mexican American migrant farm workers and their families.

C?sar Ch?vez

2006
Presents a graphic novel biography of the life of Cesar Chavez, explaining the historical significance of the Mexican American labor organizer who demanded rights for migrant farm workers.

Daring to look

Dorothea Lange's photographs and reports from the field
2008
A collection of illustrated, black-and-white photographs by American documentary photographer and photojournalist, Dorothea Lange, depicting American migrant workers and sharecroppers during the Great Depression.

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