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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Every night when he was a boy, Još M. Herǹndez would look out the window and stare at the stars. They were different colors: blue, yellow and white. Some were larger and brighter than others, and some twinkled as if they were alive. Later, when he saw man land on the moon on TV, he knew he wanted to be an astronaut.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices was a relatively brief interlude in the history of migrant agricultural labor. Yet it attracted wide attention through the publication of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and the images of Farm Security Administration photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein. Ironically, their work risked sublimating the subjects-real people and actual...
Series
Criterion collection volume 609
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie,...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
Abandoned by his father when he was a boy, Manny Ortega has made the journey from Mexico to Texas to find work and support his family. Now in his midthirties, Manny works at the Eden Plain cattle ranch for Owen Green, a cranky, prejudiced man who suffers from a chronic illness. Yet over time, Owen and Manny forge a relationship that mirrors a father and son. But their friendship is strained by the arrival of Owen's daughter, Chaney, as she and Manny...
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Using historical footage and dramatic reenactments, this film focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights -- the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. Thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice for the some of the most exploited people in the United States.
71) Dolores Huerta
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Learn about the life of this outstanding American labor leader.
72) Dolores Huerta
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Biography of Dolores Huerta, who, along with Cesar Chavez, established a union to protect the rights of farm workers.
73) Cesar Chavez
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
A biography of the union activist who led the struggle of migrant farm workers for better working conditions.
75) Cesar Chavez
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
The life and historical significance of the Mexican American labor organizer who demanded rights for migrant farm workers.
77) Cesar Chavez
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Description
This book introduces Cesar Chavez, who worked to improve the lives of poor farm workers.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"On September 16, 1965, Filipino and Mexican American migrant workers joined together to strike against the grape growers in Delano, California. The farmers left the fields to demand better wages and benefits. Led by Larry Itliong, Cesar Chavez, and Dolores Huerta, the two groups created a union called the United Farm Workers of America. For five years, UFW brought attention to their cause through boycotts, a 300-mile march, and other nonviolent efforts...
79) Of mice and men
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Best friends Lennie and George find themselves unemployed in Depression-era California, unable to maintain a stable working pattern for long because of Lennie's infantile mental capacity. They get hired at the Tyler Ranch but soon their work is ripped apart by tragedy when Curly's beautiful but unhappy wife becomes the innocent victim of Lennie's compassion.
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