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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
Program of the Board of Supervisors of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District, 1963
Tags: abandoned flowing wells; agricultural development; agriculture; artesian water; beans; beef cattle; birds; Black Hammock; cabbage; carrots; celery; Charles A. Wales; chlorides; citrus; conservation; corn; cropland; drainage; egg production; Elbert Cammack; environmental protection; erosion; farmers; farming; flowing wells; Geneva; industrial development; irrigation; Jack Dodd; Lake Harney; Lake Jessup; Lake Monroe; lakes; land development; land use; leguminous cover crops; lettuce; livestock; nemeatodes; overgrazing; pasture development; ponds; poultry; poultry farms; Puzzle Lake; Ralph Hammond; recreation; recreational land; row crops; Sanford; Sanford Junior High School; Seminole County; Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District; soil; Soil and Conservation Service; soil depletion; SSCD; SSWCD; St. Johns River; streams; U.S. Department of Agriculture; USDA; vegetables; W. W. Linz; water; water control; Wells; wildlife; wind
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
Lake Apopka: Operation Cleanup
Tags: A. Duda & Sons; agricultural pollution; algae; Billy Long; carrots; catfish; celery; Central Florida Agricultural Institute; citrus processing plants; DDT; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; E. T. York; eutrophication; Everglades; fertilizers; Fiske-Gay Associates, Inc; Florida Department of Pollution Control; Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission; Florida State Board of Health; Frank Hooper; Henry Swanson; Hooper Brothers, Inc; Jim Fiske; John F. Darby; Lake Apopka; Larry R. Sinclair; Leon Miller; muck farms; parathion; peat soil; pesticides; Richard B. Forbes; Sanford Agricultural Research and Education Center; sewage disposal plants; Stanley Winn; sweet corn; UF; University of Florida; water hyacinth; William D. Long; Zellwood Drainage District
Farming Success Came Hard for Andrew Duda and Family
Tags: A. Duda and Sons, Inc.; agriculture; Andrew Duda; Andrew Duda, Jr.; Andy Duda, Jr.; Belle Glade; carrots; celery; citrus; Cocoa; corn; Czechoslovakia; farming; Ferdinand Duda; Great Depression; groves; immigrants; John Duda; Katherine Duda; LaBelle; Lake Apopka; leaf vegetables; muck; Naples; Ocala; Oviedo; Slavia; Southland Produce; sweet corn; The Oviedo Heritage; The Oviedo Outlook; vegetables; Zellwood