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Dolores Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and feminist activist. After working for several years with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers ...
Sources vary as to numbers involved in the cotton strikes, with some sources claiming 18,000 workers [4] and others just 12,000 workers, [5] [b] 80% of whom were Mexican. [4] In the cotton strikes of 1933, striking workers were evicted from company housing while growers and managerial staff were deputized by local law enforcement.
The Imperial Valley lettuce strike of 1930 was a strike of workers against lettuce growers of California's Imperial Valley. Beginning on January 1, 1930 Mexican and Filipino workers walked off their jobs at lettuce farms throughout the valley. Complaining of low wages and abysmal working conditions, they vowed to strike until their demands were ...
United Farm Workers aims to empower migrant workers through nonviolent tactics to have liveable wages and safe working conditions. A strike against the grape growers in Delano, California, that ...
The Bracero Program (from the Spanish term bracero [bɾaˈse.ɾo], meaning "manual laborer" or "one who works using his arms") was a U.S. Government-sponsored program that imported Mexican farm and railroad workers into the United States between the years 1942 and 1964.
"Review of Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950; Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley". The Journal of American History. 75 (3): 1002–1004. doi:10.2307/1901692. JSTOR 1901692
Image credits: Delano, Jack,, photographer #3 Painting The American Insignia On Airplane Wings Is A Job That Mrs. Irma Lee Mcelroy, A Former Office Worker, Does With Precision And Patriotic Zeal
Every night, hundreds of farm workers in Mexico crowd for hours in a cramped tunnel to a border station to reach day jobs in Imperial Valley, California, with no social distancing enforced despite ...