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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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"La Obra de una Mama," a memoir written by Martina Morado Vallejo, 1953-1958

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LULAC News Councils 306-308 newsletter, July 1959, describes the "Little School of 400" and reports on the Mexican Eagles team's progress in the Iowa Men's Softball Tournament.

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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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"The Labor of a Mother," a memoir written by Martina Morado Vallejo 1953 to 1958, translated by daughter Florence Vallejo Terronez

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Photograph taken on Adella's retirement from Wonderbread, Davenport, Iowa
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