Image: Calkins Creek/ Kane Press
Happy Friday! Boy, this week felt long. As Latinx Heritage Month draws to a close, I hope my students have found some new titles to read to diversify their reading. But don't just diversify one month a year, please. Try to read widely and with an open mind all year long.
Fact Friday features Strike: the Farm Workers Fight for Their Rights by Larry Dane Brimner. This book takes us back to the 1960s when migrant farm workers earned very little pay and lived in terrible housing as they made their way up and down California to harvest ripening crops. Latino civil rights activist, César Chavez teamed up with Filipino-American labor organizer Larry Itliong and when the workers walked off the vineyards in California in 1965, the Great Delano Grape Strike began and was to last five years.
The book is attractively designed and filled with photos and quotes from the workers. Strike is available to borrow from TMS Library or through ILL (Inter-LIbrary Loan) through BCCLS. It is not available in eBCCLS. Happy reading and have a wonderful weekend.
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