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In "!Boicoteo!: Rayo de Esperanza para el Campesino," Ernest Rodriguez connects the farm worker movement for justice led by Cesar Chavez with the struggle to improve the rights of migrant workers employed in Iowa agribusiness.

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Led by House Representative John Tapscott, the bills sought to regulate migrant child labor and improve conditions in Iowa migrant camps.

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Iowa LULAC councils, labor unions, and migrant agencies marched in Des Moines to press for passage of migrant worker bills pending in the Iowa legislature. Fifteen hundred activists marched in Des Moines in March 1969. This type of collective action…

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Mexican American women and children in Davenport carrying signs to protest discriminatory hiring practices at the Oscar Mayer plant: "1970 Year of the Chicano" and "Don't buy Oscar Mayer products, August 1970."

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"New National Organization, 'Las Hermanas'," contributions of native Spanish-speaking women religeous, including Sister Irene Munoz and Sister Lucinda Munoz of Muscatine, Iowa.
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