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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
"The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
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Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Set in California apple country in the 1930s, nine hundred migratory workers rise up and join forces to protest unfair wages and working conditions. As the labor strike wears on and conflict grows between the apple pickers and the local growers' association, what begins as a fight for their rights turns into an all-out battle for survival in this star-studded retelling of John Steinbeck's beloved novel.
Author
Publisher
Monthly Review Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1971, Bruce Neuburger--young, out of work, and radicalized by the 60s counterculture in Berkeley--took a job as a farmworker on a whim. He could have hardly anticipated that he would spend the next decade laboring up and down the agricultural valleys of California, alongside the anonymous and largely immigrant workforce that feeds the nation. This account of his journey begins at a remarkable moment, after the birth of the United Farm Workers union...
Publisher
The Historical Archive Corporation
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A street of memory features the sights and sounds of daily life from Olvera Street in Los Angeles during the late 1930s. Why braceros? is about immigrant Mexican laborers, the bracero program, and the impact on California's working class and economy. The third film is a travelogue and features Good Friday throughout Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Although much has been written about the urban-rural divide in America, the city of Salinas, California, like so many other places in the state and nation whose economies are based on agriculture, is at once rural and urban. For generations, Salinas has been associated with migrant farmworkers from different racial and ethnic groups. This broad-ranging history of "the Salad Bowl of the World" tells a complex story of community-building in a multiracial,...
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Language
English
Description
Here are seven articles written by John Steinbeck in 1936 as he toured squatters camps and Hoovervilles in California's migrant labor region, led by his friend Tom Collins, manager of a federal migrant labor camp. Steinbeck's personal and literary response led him to dedicate the novel "The Grapes of Wrath" (1939) in part to Tom.
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Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Cesar Chavez dedicated his life to helping American farmworkers. As a child growing up in California during the Great Depression, he picked produce with his family. Cesar saw firsthand how unfairly workers were treated. As an adult, he organized farmworkers into unions and argued for better pay and fair working conditions. He was jailed for his efforts, but he never stopped urging people to stand up for their rights."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1998, 1997
Language
English
Description
"The illustrated companion book to the PBS documentary of the same name tells the story of the late leader of America's migrant farmworkers and the United Farm Workers Union, and their battle against the giant agribusinesses."--Publisher's description.
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