skip to main content
LOTERRE

LOTERRE

Search from vocabulary

Content language

| español français
Search help

Concept information

Preferred term

farmworkers' movement  

Definition(s)

  • The farmworkers' movement is a social justice movement that seeks to obtain the rights and fair treatment of migrant farmworkers across the United States. Beginning as early as the 1930s, the movement originally comprised migrant Mexican farmworkers in California, gaining momentum by 1964. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Farmworkers' Movement]

Belongs to group

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-BL7K4PC3-Q

Download this concept: