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Big Read features' Grapes of Wrath'
March 02, 2012
| indystar.com
The Hancock County Big Read program will celebrate John Steinbeck's'' The Grapes of Wrath,'' a classic novel about sharecroppers driven from their Oklahoma homes during the Great Depression and forced to become migrant workers ...
Washington orchards desperate for apple pickers
November 09, 2011
| indystar.com
The growing season got off to a slow start because of a cold, wet spring, and some migrant workers ... But many Mexican and other migrant workers ... Some Alabama farmers tried hiring American citizens after the state's new immigration law chased away migrant workers ...
Child labor proposals draw fire from farmers
December 17, 2011
| DesMoinesRegister.com
Roybal-Allard, an activist on behalf of migrant workers, wrote... '' The closest thing in Iowa to the larger group work common among migrant workers is detasseling, the removal of...
Richard Cohen: Too cool for school
August 09, 2011
| indystar.com
In her autobiography, Helen Gahagan Douglas recalled telling President Franklin D. Roosevelt about her visits to the camps of migrant workers. She was especially poignant about...
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