Huelguistas: Delano Grape Strikers Oral History 1965, Maria Saludado

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Title: Huelguistas: Delano Grape Strikers Oral History 1965, Maria Saludado
Rights: Educational fair use.
Creator: University of California, San Diego.
Date: 2002.
Description: A migrant farmworker and member of the Delano Grape Strike of 1965, Maria Saludado, recounts her experiences immigrating to the United States in the 1950s and working in American fields for ten cents an hour. She details the struggles of growing up in Chula Vista and San Diego, California from her attempts to get along with her Anglo American peers to the backbreaking labor that she and her entire family experienced in the fields. Saludado also details the health problems she contracted, such as asthma, from the pesticides used in the fields where she worked. Her story highlights the experiences of Mexican migrant workers in Delano during the 1950s and 60s, exploring the many issues they faced like low wages, health hazards, poor working and living conditions, and racial discrimination.
Format: Audio File. MP3.
Language: English.
Publisher: The University of California, San Diego Library.
Contributor: Melissa Valenzuela.
Identifier: https://libraries.ucsd.edu/farmworkermovement/medias/oral-history/
Subject: Farm workers; migrant workers; Mexico; California; immigration; United Farm Worker Movement; agriculture; braceros; boycotts; strikes; labor history; oral histories.
Source: MP3 file. The University of California, San Diego Farmworker Movement Documentation Project. 10/28/2021. https://libraries.ucsd.edu/farmworkermovement/media/oral_history/DELANOSTRIKERS/Saludado,%20Maria.mp3