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- Tags: agricultural labor
Oral History of Sister Gail Grimes
Tags: A. Duda & Sons; African Americans; agricultural labor; agriculture; alligators; Ann Kendrick; Apopka; Apopka City Council; bass; bass fishing; Bonita Springs; boycotts; Cape Canaveral; carrot houses; carrots; Cesar Chavez; César Estrada Chávez; citrus; City of Apopka; Crealdé School of Art; discrimination; Dowdell v. City of Apopka; E & J Gallo Winery; farms; Farmworker Association of Florida; farmworkers; ferneries; fernery; Gail Grimes; gators; Germans; Haitians; Hispanics; Hope CommUnity Center; Immokalee; Jared Muha; juice plants; kale; KKK; Ku Klux Klan; laborers; Lake Apopka; Lake County; Latinas; Latinos; lettuce; lupus; Mexican Americans; Mexicans; muck farms; Museum of the Apopkans; nonprofits; nuns; nurseries; nursery; Office for Farmworker Ministry; orange county; orange groves; oranges; pesticide exposure; pesticides; Peter Schreyer; Pierson; Plymouth; Plymouth Citrus Products Cooperative, Inc.; Polk County; POW; POWs; Prisoner of War; Prisoners of War; race relations; racial conflict; racism; radish; radishes; religious sisters; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Catholicism; Roman Catholics; segregation; service learning; SLE; soldiers; Stomping Ground; systemic lupus erythematosus; The Last Harvest; turpentine; Vietnam War; wages; Walt Disney World Resort; William Donald Borders; Willis V. McCall; Willis Virgil McCall; Winter Garden; Winter Garden City Council; Winter Park; World War II; WWII
Oral Memoirs of Jeannie Economos
Tags: agribusiness farms; agricultural labor; Agricultural Worker Protection Standard; agriculture; Angel City: A Novel; Angela Tanner; Apopka; Astatula; Audubon Society; AWPS; Betty Woods; Bracero Program; bromomethane; carrots; Central Americans; citrus; Civil Rights Act of 1964; commodity crops; corn; Dale Finley Slongwhite; DI; disability benefits; disability income insurance; disability insurance; disaster education; disaster responses; Domestic Fair Trade Association; economic development; educational programs; environmental advocacy; environmental justice; Environmental Protection Agency; EPA; Eustis; fair trade; Farmworker Association of Florida; farmworkers; farmworkers' rights; Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food; FOLA; food movements; Friends of Lake Apopka; Geraldine Matthew; Geraldine Shannon; globalization; Great Recession; Guatemalans; Haitians; Harry and Harriette Moore Memorial Park; Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Cultural Complex; Hawthorne Village; Henry Flagler; Henry Morrison Flagler; Hispanic Americans; Hispanics; immigrants; immigrants’ rights; immigration; income protection; Indiantown; Jared Muha; Jobs and Education Partnership; La Via Campesina; Lake Apopka; Lake Apopka Farmworker Memorial Quilts Project; Lake Apopka Project; Lake Apopka Restoration Act of 1996; Lake City; Latin Americans; Latinas; Latinos; Linda Lee; Magnolia Park; Mary Tinsley; methyl bromide; Mexican Americans; Mexicans; Mexico; migrant farms; migrant farmworkers; migrant labor; migrant laborers; migrant workers; Mount Dora; Museum of the Apopkans; NAFTA; National Institutes Of Health; NIH; non-profit; North American Free Trade Agreement; not-for[profit; nurseries; nursery; nuts; Oakland Nature Preserve; OASDI; Occupational Safety and Health Administration; Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance; oranges; OSHA; Patrick D. Smith; Pesticide Action Network International; pesticide exposure; pesticide health and safety; Pesticide Safety and Environmental Health Project Coordinator; pesticides; public housing; race relations; railroads; railways; retraining; Salvadorans; Sara Downs; Save the Manatee Club; slavery; slaves; Social Security; Social Security Disability Insurance; soy; specialty crops; SSD; SSDI; St. Augustine; St. Johns River Water Management District; The Last Harvest: A History and Tribute to the Life and Work of the Farmworkers on Lake Apopka; tomato; tomato industry; tomatoes; U.S. Department of Agriculture; unfree labor; USDA; wage theft; Wahneta; wheat; Wimauma; Winter Garden; Winter Haven; Worker Protection Standard; Zellwood
Oral History of Geraldean Matthew
Tags: agricultural labor; agriculture; Alfredo Bahena Act; Apopka; apples; arthritis; beans; Belle Glade; carrots; cherries; cherry; citrus; civil rights; clean drinking water; contraception; corn; corporal punishment; crew leaders; Dale Finley Slongwhite; David Overfield; DDT; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; discrimination; domestic violence; educational programs; environmental advocacy; environmental justice; environmental law; environmentalism; FAF; Farm Workers Association; Farmworker Association of Florida; farmworkers; farmworkers' rights; FDOH; Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food; FFB; Florida Department of Health; Florida Department of Health in Orange County; Florida Farmworkers Bureau; foliage; FWA; Geraldean Matthew; Geraldean Shannon; Graveyard Quarters; Hispanic Americans; Hispanics; HIV; human immunodeficiency virus; Jared Muha; Jeannie Economos; kidney dialysis; kidney disease; labor; labor camps; labor rights; laborers; Lake Apopka; maggot workers; Merita Bread; Mexican Americans; Mexican Pete; Mexicans; Miami; Michigan; migrant farms; migrant farmworkers; migrant labor; migrant laborers; migrant workers; Mount Dora; National Farm Workers Association; NFWA; nursing home technicians; Orange County Health Department; oranges; Palm Beach; pesticides; protected sex; retraining; right to know; safe sex; segregation; sexual abuse; slavery; slaves; string beans; Tallahassee; traffic trucks; tramp trucks; tramps; underemployment; undocumented workers; unemployment; vegetables; workplace injuries
Memoirs of Life in a WC Migrant Farm Camp
Tags: addiction; African American; agricultural labor; agricultural laborer; agriculture; Bigham, Patricia Ann Black; Black History Month; Black, Lula Mae Haynes; Black, Patricia Ann; Black, Pilgrim; cocaine; drug; farm laborer; farm worker; farming; Haynes, Lula Mae; History at Night; Huron; imprisonment; incarceration; labor; laborer; Lyons, New York; migrant labor; migrant laborer; migrant worker; migration; North Rose School; O'Toole, Joseph; Ontario County Jail; Patricia Ann's Nail Spa Boutique; race relations; racism; rehabilitation; Rogers, Pam; Sanford; Seven Acres & A Mule; sexual abuse; sobriety; victim; Wayne County; Wayne County Museum; WH Magazine; Wolcott, New York; worker
Life's Lessons Become Wayne Woman's Message: Being Inclusive Benefits Everyone
Tags: agricultural; agricultural labor; agricultural laborer; Bigham, Patricia Ann Black; Black, Patricia Ann; Black, Pilgrim; employee; farm; farm laborer; farming; Huron, New York; Kennedy, Robert Francis; laborer; Lyons, New York; migrant labor; migrant laborer; migrant worker; Miller, Jim; Nail Spa and Unique Boutique; O'Toole, Joe; Pre-Emption Road; Sanford, Wolcott, New York; Seven Acres & A Mule; sexual abuse; VanDusen; victim; Wayne County Museum; Wayne County, New York; worker
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 57: Apopka Farmworkers, Part Three
Tags: agricultural labor; agricultural laborer; Apopka; Capitol Rotunda; Catholic; Catholic Church; Catholicism; civil rights; compensation; documentary; equal rights; farm labor; farm laborer; farm worker; fishing; Florida Legislature; health care; Kit Kat Club; labor; labor organizing; labor rights; labor union; laborer; Lake Apopka; Lake Apopka Farmworker Memorial Quilt; Lee, Linda; Mathew, Geraldine; migrant labor; migrant worker; nun; Office for Farmworker Ministry; organizing; podcast; quilt; racism; RICHES Podcast Documentaries; Robert Cassanello; Robinson; Robinson, Erline; Robinson, Frederick; Robinson, Pop; Robinson, Richard; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Catholicism; Tallahassee; Union; union organizing; wages; worker rights; workers' compensation
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 56: Apopka Farmworkers, Part Two
Tags: African American; agricultural labor; agricultural laborer; apartment; Apopka; Catholic; Catholic Church; Catholicism; celery; celery industry; civil rights; corn; corn industry; demonstration; documentary; equal rights; farm labor; farm laborer; Hispanic; Hispanic American; housing; illiteracy; labor; labor organizing; labor rights; labor union; laborer; Lake Apopka Farmworker Memorial Quilt; Land, John H.; Latin American; Latino; Lee, Linda; literacy; Mathew, Geraldine; migrant labor; migrant worker; migration; nun; Office for Farmworker Ministry; organizing; podcast; protest; quilt; race relations; racism; RICHES Podcast Documentaries; Robert Cassanello; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Catholicism; unemployment; Union; wages; Walt Disney World; worker rights