Strike!: The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights

by Larry Dane Brimner

Book Overview

In 1965, as the grapes in California's Coachella Valley were ready to harvest, migrant Filipino American workers--who picked and readied the crop for shipping--negotiated a wage of $1.40 per hour, the same wage growers had agreed to pay guest workers from Mexico. But when the Filipino grape pickers moved north to Delano, in the Central Valley, and again asked for $1.40 an hour, the growers refused. The ensuing conflict set off one of the longest and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590789970
• ISBN13: 9781590789971
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Calkins Creek Books
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.4" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher