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Children took part in strikes and nonviolent resistance movement along side of their parents. As a result of children's involvement in the boycotts and strikes, they created a school focused on the strike and educating children about the labor movement. Parents acknowledged that farm worker children faced discrimination and prejudices attending schools that were managed by individuals who did not comprehend their struggle. Do to ill treatment towards their children experienced they strived to create a school where their children would be able to receive proper education and treatment. Moreover, the writers also disclosed that in 1969 about 11,273 children were found working in the field under inhuman conditions.
Keywords
Delano, children, Schenley Camp, Strike School, boycott department, legal department, Gordon Williamson, Felicia Williamson, Dolores Padillas, Children strike, classrooms, California education, learning, child labor, federal investigations, illegal employment, farm labor, farm workers, migrant workers, tragic, fields, growers, farm workers movement, labor movement
Date
1970
Language
English
Location
California
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Text
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application/pdf
Digital Collection
El Malcriado Newspaper Collection
Repository
Archives & Special Collections of California State University, Monterey Bay
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"School Strikes: Tries New Techniques & Child Labor: Huelgas en las Escuelas: Nueva Técnicas y Trabajo Infantil" (1970). Subjects. 105.
https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/elmalcriado_subjects/105
