agricultural laborers

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.

Chronicles the experiences of the more than one million people who traveled to California to find better opportunities during the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and the war boom of the 1940s.

Jim Nolan, a new member of the Communist Party, struggles to keep a cool head when he leads nine hundred migratory workers in a strike against landowners in California's apple country.

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

Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.

Chronicles the life of Cesar Chavez, and discusses his creation of the United Farm Workers Movement that used strikes, boycotts, and fasts to make cultural and political history. Includes biographical sketches, primary documents, a chronology, and a glossary.

Provides a biography of Mexican American labor organizer Cesar Chavez covering his birth, childhood, teen years, and adulthood. Includes a timeline.

Portrays the life of twelve-year-old Juan Medina and his family, migrant workers living in Encinitas, California.

Provides an introduction to the life and work of labor and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, and features articles that discuss his early struggles, the events that led him to organize a union for farm workers, the social and political impact of his work, his strategies and tactics, and his legacy.