Themes

Electronic Schoolhouse - Migrants

Click on an image to Build a Worksheet or view and print a larger image.
*Indicates document with lesson


Image. Mexican Migrants on the Road. *Mexican Migrants on the Road, 1936
A family of Mexican migrants on the road with tire trouble, California, 1936. Dorothea Lange, photographer.

Image. Home of Mexican Migrant Worker. *Home of Mexican Migrant Worker, 1937
Migratory Mexican field worker’s home on the edge of a frozen pea field in California, 1937. Dorothea Lange, photographer.

Image. Migrant Camp Housing. Migrant Camp Housing, 1936
Woman using a laundry scrub board in front of a tent with stovepipe poking out the front, Sacramento, California, November 1936

Image. Road Sign “Cotton Pickers Wanted.” *Road Sign “Cotton Pickers Wanted,” 1938
Photograph of side-by-side roadside employment signs in Spanish and English, 1938

Image. Summary of Minimum Wage Order for Farm Workers Summary of Minimum Wage Order for Farm Workers, ca. 1984
Summary of Minimum Wage Order for Farm Workers from the State of New York Department of Labor, in English and Spanish, ca. 1984

Image. Article, "Haitian Farmworkers." Article, "Haitian Farmworkers"
Article "Haitian Farmworkers," by Kay Embrey of the Cornell Migrant Program. [2 pages]