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In 1970s the state of Florida was hit by the typhoid epidemic like the rest of the country. The article touches on the health care challenges that farm workers faced and details various injustices. Unjust labor contracts, unequal access to educational opportunities, harmful pesticides and a typhoid crises to name a few of the obstacles that farm workers and working poor individuals faced.
Keywords
Slavery, Homestead, Florida, typhoid epidemic, farm workers, Dade County, California, labor contractors, imprisonment, conspiracy, Cadillac Eldorado, economic, wages, systems, HB 74, United Farm Workers, Discrimination, los Angeles, Chicano Students, Mexican Americans, civil rights, elementary schools, secondary schools, New Mexico, Texas, commissions, disparities, children, teachers, cultural needs, linguistic needs, education, Senator Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin, Washington D.C., Chicanos, students
Date
1973
Language
English
Location
Florida, California, Wisconsin & New Mexico
Type
Text
Digital Format
application/pdf
Digital Collection
El Malcriado Newspaper Collection
Repository
Archives & Special Collections of California State University, Monterey Bay
Recommended Citation
"Slavery Ain't Dead: Esclavitud no Está Muerto" (1973). States. 47.
https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/elmalcriado_states-countries/47
