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TitleHome of migrant workers circa 1961
Date Created1961
Description"This is home to a migrant worker and his family - on Route 33 between Hightstown and Freehold, N. J. - where staff writer Dale Wright found conditions no better now than they were eight years ago...
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TitleGod's Harvest in New Jersey
Date Created1950-1959
DescriptionPamphlet prepared and distributed by the New Jersey Council of Churches dealing with efforts to aid migrant farm workers in the state.
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TitleStatement of support from the Consumers League of New Jersey for Senate Bill 1945 regarding restrictions on migrant labor
Date Created1961
DescriptionMrs. Arthur Hawkins, president of the Consumers League of New Jersey, submits a statement to The Honorable B. Everett Jordan, Chairman of the Subcommittee on General Legislation and Agricultural...
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TitleSenate Bill 1945 relating to migrant labor, with cover letter from Senator Clifford P. Case to the Consumers' League of New Jersey
Date Created1961
DescriptionSenate Bill 1945 was an effort to amend title V of the Agricultural Act of 1949 to enforce restrictions on migrant workers from Mexico in order to better protect American employment and economics. ...
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TitleA Bittersweet Story from the Farm Front from WDL News
Date Created1959
DescriptionThis article from the Workers Defense League newsletter describes organizing among Puerto Rican farm workers over wages and working conditions. The Workers Defense League, founded in 1936 by Norman...
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TitleLetter, Fay Bennett, Secretary, National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor, Workers Defense League, to Marion C. (Grace) Reed, President, Consumers League of New Jersey.
Date Created1959
DescriptionThis letter concerns the illegal employment of British West Indian contract workers at Seabrook Farms, as a way to avoid complying with Puerto Rico Migration Division regulations. The Workers Defense...
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TitleForgotten People: I Saw Human Shame as a Migrant Worker
AuthorWright, Dale
Date Created1961
DescriptionDale Wright, a World-Telegram Staff writer, went undercover as a migrant worker in Hightstown, New Jersey, and in Florida. He recorded his observations, interviewed other workers, and took photos of...
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TitleMigrants as a Social and Educational Problem in New Jersey
AuthorFair, Laura
Date Created1932
DescriptionMigrants as a Social and Educational Problem in New Jersey by Laura Fair, was published in the Studies in Education series (no. 3) in the monthly Rutgers University Bulletin in May, 1932, (Series...
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TitleContact sheet of photographs of Alberta Gonzalez
Date Created1986
DescriptionAlberta Gonzalez was born in Puerto Rico in 1914. In July 1950, with economic conditions in Puerto Rico deterioration and viable opportunity for single women in the work force, Gonzalez migrated to...
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TitlePortrait of Alberta Gonzalez.
Date Created1986
DescriptionAlberta Gonzalez was born in Puerto Rico in 1914. In July 1950, with economic conditions in Puerto Rico deterioration and viable opportunity for single women in the work force, Gonzalez migrated to...