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Chavez, Cesar 1927-1993 Child labor United States Child migrant agricultural laborers United States Estados Unidos Emigración e inmigración Política gubernamental Huerta, Dolores 1930- Mexico Migrant agricultural laborers United States Trabajadores migratorios agrícolas Estados Unidos United States United States Emigration and immigration Government policyFilter By Series
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Chavez, Cesar 1927-1993 Child labor United States Child migrant agricultural laborers United States Estados Unidos Emigración e inmigración Política gubernamental Huerta, Dolores 1930- Mexico Migrant agricultural laborers United States Trabajadores migratorios agrícolas Estados Unidos United States United States Emigration and immigration Government policyFilter By Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 609Summary: Using historical footage and dramatic reenactments, this film focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights -- the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. Thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice for the some of the most exploited people in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Poverty Law Center 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC VIVSummary: A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALASummary: Examines the problem of child migrant farm labor in the United States. Follows three children who travel from Texas to Michigan to Florida, working in the fields and apple orchards.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Libre Studio 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HARSummary: Examines the lives and issues of legal and illegal migrant agricultural workers and the American farmers who rely on them, in light of current United States immigration policy and anti-immigration sentiment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: White Hot Films 2008