It has been a busy summer; I have been to archives and libraries in East Lansing, MI, Detroit, MI, Chicago, IL, Northridge, CA, Ventura, CA, and Oxnard, CA.
And I have collected new sources for my dissertation project, “Labor, Migration, and Activism: A History of Mexican Workers on the Oxnard Plain, 1930-1980.” Right now, I’m working on a paper titled, “Growers Strike Back: The Bracero Program In Ventura County, 1942-1964.” I have spent many hours looking at microfilm collections of the Oxnard Press-Courier, Ventura Star-Free Press, La Opinion, and Ventura County Union Labor News. I love microfilm!!!
The above two photos are of the present site of the Triple S Labor Camp, which was next to the Buena Vista Labor Camp the largest bracero labor camps in the nation.
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