migrant agricultural laborers

The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.

Presents the life of Cesar Chavez, focusing primarily on his work organizing the National Farm Workers Association and working for improved working and living conditions for all Mexican Americans.

The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.

John Steinbeck's classic novel about an Oklahoma farm family driven from their home and forced to travel to California during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.

Ann Holmes, a sixteen-year-old runaway living in a Washington forest, is visited by the Virgin Mary--an event that sets off struggles of faith and conscience in her supporters and in a young priest whose attempts to evaluate her experience are clouded by his attraction to her.

The story of the Joad family, "Okies" who travel from the Dust Bowl of the American Southwest to California in search of a better life.

Tells the story of Cesar Chavez and his fight to win dignity and justice for migrant farmworkers through the United Farm Workers union, and includes essays, letters, and poems contributed by men and women who participated on both sides of the struggle.

Presents excerpts and transcripts from the speeches of American labor leader Cesar Chavez, organizer of the first farm workers union in the United States.