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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 workers from Mexico. But when the Filipino grape pickers moved north to Delano, in the Central Valley, and again asked for 1.40 an hour, the growers refused. The ensuing conflict set off one of the longest and most successful strikes in American history. In "Strike!," award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner dramatically captures that story. Brimner, a master researcher, fills this riveting account of the strike and its aftermath with the words of migrant workers, union organizers, and grape growers, as well as archival images that capture that first strike in 1965 and the ones that subsequently followed. Includes an author's note, bibliography, and source notes.
Photographs and English text with Spanish sidebars chronicle the history of the farm workers' strike led by César Chávez and Larry Itliong, leading to the founding of the United Farm Workers of America labor union.
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Strikes and lockouts, Agricultural laborers, Labor unions, Juvenile literature, History, Chavez, cesar, 1927-1993, Chavez, cesar, 1927-1993, juvenile literature, Mexican americans, California, juvenile literature, Mexican American agricultural laborers, Employment, Filipino American migrant agricultural laborers, National Farm Workers Association, Migrant agricultural laborersPlaces
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Strike!: the farm workers' fight for their rights
2014, Boyds Mills Press
in English
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1590789970 9781590789971
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Strike!: The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights
2014, Boyds Mills Press
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Horn Book, September 2014
Kirkus Starred, May 2014
School Library Journal starred, June 2014
789Y Childrens Plus, Inc.
Accelerated Reader MG 8.5 6 6 169517
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