migrant agricultural laborers

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

Describes the partnership between Dolores Huerta and C?sar Ch?ves, the founding of the National Farm Workers Association, and their combined efforts to improve working conditions for agricultural laborers. Presented in English and Spanish.

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.

Profiles the March 1966 National Grape Boycott led by Mexican-American activist, Cesar Chavez, in order to protest the conditions that farmworkers had to endure including inadequate housing and wages.

Presents a biography of twentieth-century social activist Cesar Chavez who became the leaders of the United Farm Workers and fought for the rights of Mexican laborers in the mid-1900s.

A labor leader of the 20th century, Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez cofounded the National Farm Workers Association, forerunner of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW). She was among the few powerful female union leaders and one of the only Hispanic women to achieve such an important position.

The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.