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The Harvest is a feature documentary film on the life of migrant children and their families in the United States.It revisits Edward R. Murrow’s Harvest of Shame, filmed 53 years ago, and reveals that little has changed over the past five decades in the lives of migrant farm workers in the United States.
Juan Corona Vallejo (February 7, 1934 – March 4, 2019) was a Mexican serial killer who was convicted of the murders of 25 migrant farm workers found buried in peach orchards along the Feather River in Sutter County, California, in 1971. At the time, his crimes were among the most notorious in U.S. history.
A school for the children of white migrant farm workers, circa 1945. Children of migrant workers struggle to achieve the same level of educational success as their peers. . Relocation causes discontinuity in education, which causes migrant students to progress slowly through school and drop out at high r
A 2018 divorce prompted her to return to the migrant center and begin traveling between Mexico and the U.S., like she did as a child. She brought along her four children, ages 11, 13, 18 and 22.
In the agricultural community of Immokalee, Florida, known for its large migrant worker population, a 40-year-old tutoring and mentoring program has made big strides in promoting higher education ...
The Hotline provides a toll-free number (800-234-8848) for migrant farm workers and their families to call from anywhere in the country. The Hotline is designed to help enroll migrant children in school and to access migrant education program services.
The number of foreign workers seeking help over claims of exploitation, bullying, underpayment and poor living conditions on UK farms significantly increased last year, the BBC has learned. Nearly ...
There, Thompson met Jim Hill, with whom she had three more children. During the 1930s, the family worked as migrant farm workers following the crops in California and at times into Arizona. Thompson later recalled periods when she picked 400–500 pounds (180–230 kg) of cotton from first daylight until after it was too dark to work.