As he travels with his family of migrant farmworkers, Diego relies on his radio to provide him with companionship and help connect him to all the different places in which he lives.
When Chico starts the third grade after his migrant worker family moves to begin harvesting California grapes, he finds that self confidence and math skills help him cope with the first day of school.
The influential story of the Joad family amidst the Great Depression, illuminating their journey from disparaging Oklahoma to the deceptively promising fields of California.
Traces the life and accomplishments of Mexican American labor leader C?esar Ch?avez, who founded the United Farm Workers union to promote better wages and working conditions for migrants and other farm workers.
As he travels with his family of migrant farmworkers, Diego relies on his radio to provide him with companionship and help connect him to all the different places in which he lives.
Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and were forced to live in a federal labor camp and discusses the school that was built for their education.
While on detention for passing notes during a history lesson on Cesar Chavez, Kenneth and Aleesa are transported to a vineyard in the 1960s, where they see first-hand what Chavez, the union strikes, and the Schenley boycott did for migrant workers.
