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This is were almost towards the end of the semester and because were almost towards the end of the semester i decided to talk to you guys today about what i researched. You guys had my piece on braceros. To start with i want us to think about the class today in two parts. One in which were going to bracero history and i know we covered brassero history in sort of broad sketches. This time well talk about brassero history a little more indepth. Cero history a little indepth. Second thing were goi...

I remember temecula when it was watermelon country, and i was there working. Butbut im bias toward our vintners in northern california. Weve gotfor our event, we have vintners coming from, of course, napa, sonoma, mendocino, santa cruz. Damian and thats pretty amazing. Youre talking about 8 years of partnerships that you have developed over the years. Ray yes, yes, its a great thing, you know, to have all these vintners. This year, well have around 22 to 24 vintners. Most are latino vintners. We...

Find your oldest Family Member and collect an oral history. I thought it was a basic interview. A little challenging. When you come from immigrant families where your family is somewhere else. My oldest Family Member was not really that old. I grew up with my uncle. He would talk about his work in california and texas. He would tell my whole family stories about what it was like to work picking cotton in texas. Picking cabin in california. I have heard the story. I took it back to the class. My ...

Come to the United States. I think it was a wartime thing. Workers were needed. You are exactly right. It started in 1942. What does guestworker mean . Temporary workers. Yes. Guestworker means temporary labor contracts which means they come in and they are recruited to work maybe a couple of months and then they return. Some of them have the option to renew the contract and stay in the United States for multiple years. Guestworker means just that. Think that Guestworker Programs would be import...

Did a lot to advance the cause. And dolores was crucial to the limit to the movement as cesar chavez. The movie her life. Much on her incredible skills as an organizer, her exceptional commitment, her unwavering commitment to social justice. You can watch this another american artifacts programs by visiting our website at cspan. Org history. s now more on Dolores Huerta life story. We talked to her only visited bakersfield, california. Dolores huerta is a civil rights activists who cofounded the...

Much onment relied very incredible skills as an organizer, her exceptional commitment, her unwavering commitment to social justice. You can watch this another american artifacts programs by visiting our website at cspan. Org history. Announcer now more on Dolores Huertas life story. We talked to her when our local content vehicles visited bakersfield, california. Dolores huerta is a civil rights activists who cofounded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, which became the united farm w...

Us in terms of harvesting cotton and tomatoes. At the end of the basero program is one Significant Impact. Also what we see at the same time was there was not not only was there a number of visas available to mexican nationals, right, but we also see a shift in the temporary worker programs. So at this time, there had been, prior to 1965, a temporary worker program, h2 program. It was relatively small in scale and continues to be relatively small in scale. Prior to 1965, the burden was on the go...

Not a hearing room at first. And then in the 1970s, Senator Frank Church began to investigate problems with the cia and fbi. And this was goaliing to be the first investigation into the intelligence operations. The material they were handling was so secret that it had to be in a secure place. So this room was converted. A floor was built across. It was turned into offices for the Church Committee that was investigating the cia and the fbi. They had armed guards standing at each of the doors to m...

Staying in the united states. And youre quite right to say that this is an oversight. Because its, in a lot of discussions of immigration, theres a connation of being foreignborn and being immigrant, but in fact, theres a sizable group of people who are foreignborn, residents of the united states, and theyre not immigrants in the sense that they are on a path that leads eventually to citizenship. So theres a large number of people who are settled here on h h1b visas, and these are visas that are...

Birth of president dwight david eisenhower, his granddaughters gather for a rare family discussion at Gettysburg College to talk about his military and political career as well as his relevance for 21st century americans. Then on saturday afternoon at 1 00, 60 years ago, rosa parks defied a city ordnance for blacks to leave their seats on a city bus to make room for white passengers. Her stand helped instigate the bus boycott as we hear from the attorney for rosa park and demonstrators. Then at ...