Strike!: The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights by Larry Dane Brimner

Strike!: The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights

Larry Dane Brimner

172 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction historical history middle grade emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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In 1965, as the grapes in California’s Coachella Valley were ready to harvest, migrant Filipino American workers—who picked and readied the crop for shipping—negotiated a wage of $1.40 per hour, the same wage growers had agreed to pay guest worker...

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