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Esperanza Rising
The clip below is from a famous movie about the Great Depression. The people traveling lost their farm in Oklahoma and are headed towards California to get work, just like Esperanza's family.
Chapter 5: Research Groups
California:
California Perspectives on US History
http://www.museumca.org/picturethis/timeline/depression-era-1930s/migrant-farm-workers/info
Farm Labor in the 1930s
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=788_0_6_0
Hispanic Americans: Migrant Workers and Braceros (1930s-1964)
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/calcultures/ethnic_groups/subtopic3b.html
Facts about California in the 1930s
http://www.ehow.com/info_8284654_california-1930s.html
Immigration from Mexico
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/mexican6.htm
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Interactive Timeline
http://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/history/interactive-timeline.html
Mexican Immigrant Labor History
www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/history/timeline/17.html
The Great Depression:
How the Depression Affected Children
newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/er2a.htm
Memories of the Great Depression
www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-54463_18670_18793-53511--,00.html
Depression and WWII
www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_subj.html
World Book Student Article: Look at the Human Suffering section
http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar234080&st=great+depression