migrant labor

The author recalls his childhood in the mountains and valleys of California with his farmworker parents who inspired him with poetry and song.

In 1936 twelve-year-old Rosie Pearl Bush and her family of migrants endure the hardships of the Great Depression as they find work picking fruit in the California Valley.

Presents a firsthand account of the Dust Bowl refugees, migrant labor camps, and labor activism among Anglo and Mexican farm workers in California through a collection of personal writings and photographs.

Presents a biography of Cesar Chavez, a Chicano farm worker-labor organizer, with short essays written by people involved in his life.

A twelve-year-old Mexican crosses the border illegally to join his father in California.

Janey and her family settle in a real home after spending years as migratory workers.

The saga of a family in 1939 that struggles through the Great Depression by laboring as Dust Bowl migrants.

Presents an account of the life of the Mexican American who helped organize farm workers into a powerful union.

In 1957 fifteen-year-old Dove, the daughter of a prosperous orange grower in Benevolence, Florida, feels increasingly uneasy after learning of acts of racism against the African American orange pickers by those close to her.

A young African-American girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.