Spanish for Farmers
Braceros traveled to a country where they did not know the language or the customs. In order to help them understand their new surroundings, local committees prepared Spanish-English phrasebooks such as the one pictured below. This handbook [...]
Tags: Braceros, farmworkers
Item Type: Pamphlet/Petition
Historical Era: Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Proclamation of the Delano Grape Workers for International Boycott Day, May 10, 1969
In 1966, Mexican and Filipino grape pickers in California joined together to strike for better working conditions. Farm workers were excluded from federal laws passed during the 1930s that protected other kinds of workers. As the strike continued [...]
Item Type: Pamphlet/Petition
Historical Era: Postwar America (1946-1975)