agricultural laborers

Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

Anna, the child of Mennonites from Mexico who travel north to harvest fruit and vegetables, compares herself to various animals that share some of her behaviors, and wonders what it would be like to be a tree with deep roots as opposed to a feather in the wind.

The author describes his experiences as a young immigrant pursuing his education during the 1950s and 1960s.

Photographs, poems, and interviews with children reveal the hardships and hopes of Mexican American migrant farm workers and their families.

Presents a graphic novel biography of the life of Cesar Chavez, explaining the historical significance of the Mexican American labor organizer who demanded rights for migrant farm workers.

A collection of illustrated, black-and-white photographs by American documentary photographer and photojournalist, Dorothea Lange, depicting American migrant workers and sharecroppers during the Great Depression.

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.

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