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The Bracero Program (from the Spanish term bracero [bɾaˈse.ɾo], meaning "manual laborer" or "one who works using his arms") was a U.S. Government-sponsored program that imported Mexican farm and railroad workers into the United States between the years 1942 and 1964.
The Imperial Valley lettuce strike of 1930 was a strike of workers against lettuce growers of California's Imperial Valley. Beginning on January 1, 1930 Mexican and Filipino workers walked off their jobs at lettuce farms throughout the valley. Complaining of low wages and abysmal working conditions, they vowed to strike until their demands were ...
Sources vary as to numbers involved in the cotton strikes, with some sources claiming 18,000 workers [4] and others just 12,000 workers, [5] [b] 80% of whom were Mexican. [4] In the cotton strikes of 1933, striking workers were evicted from company housing while growers and managerial staff were deputized by local law enforcement.
In the late 1930s, the Libmans decided to consolidate the family business in Tuscola, Illinois, where broomcorn grew across hundreds of acres. ... Yet broomcorn and the Mexican farm workers, who ...
The Mexican farm workers entered the U.S. legally under a special program that helps crops get picked for market. But once in South Carolina, work conditions became “intolerable,” a federal ...
Mexican government sources suggest over 300,000 were repatriated between 1930 and 1933, [4]: fn 20 while Mexican media reported up to 2,000,000 during a similar span. [ 6 ] : 150 After 1933, repatriation decreased from the 1931 peak, but was over 10,000 in most years until 1940.
United Farm Workers aims to empower migrant workers through nonviolent tactics to have liveable wages and safe working conditions. A strike against the grape growers in Delano, California, that ...
During the 1930s, 40% of the pecan crop in the United States was grown in Texas, with half of that being produced within a 250-mile radius of San Antonio. [1] [2] Described as the "world's largest pecan shelling center", between 10,000 and 20,000 workers, primarily Mexican American women, worked as shellers, removing the hard outer shell of pecans grown and collected in the region. [3]