Browse Items (15 total)
- Tags: migrant labor
Letter from William Beardall to Henry Shelton Sanford (August 4, 1883)
Memoirs of Life in a Wayne County Migrant Farm Camp
Tags: agricultural laborer; Alton Hotel; Alton, New York; BeBe Black; BeBe Haynes; Black Label; ChewTobaccos; commissary; D. W. VanDusen; education; farm worker; flat house; Foster's; Genesee; Henry Freeman; Huron, New York; I-95; Interstate 95; labor; laborer; Little W. Corner Store; Lula Mae Haynes; Lula Mae Haynes Black; Maxwell House; migrant labor; migrant worker; New York State Route 104; North Rose Wolcott School Board; North Rose, New York; Patricia Ann Black; Patricia Ann Black Bigham; Pilgrim Black; Preemption Road; restaurant; Ridge Road; Schaeffer's Wallington, New York; school; Sodus Bank; SR 104; The Times of Wayne County; wages; Wayne County, New York; Wild Irish Rose; Wolcott, New York; work camp
Letter from A. Worley Brown to Pilgrim Black (May 21, 1962)
Tags: agriculture; Bigham, Patricia Ann Black; Black, Patricia Ann; Black, Pilgrim; Brown, A. Worley; Bryant, Farris; Coleman, Burnis; employment; farm labor; Florida Industrial Commission; Florida State Employment Service; harvest; labor; laborer; migrant labor; migrant worker; New York; Sanford; State of Florida; Upstate New York
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
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 49: An Interview with Paul Ortiz, Part 1
Tags: 1920 Election; African American; armed resistance; civil rights; convict labor; convict leasing; court; Cravero, Geoffrey; democracy; disenfranchisement; documentary; election; Election of 1920; emancipation; Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920; Great Depression; Harding, Warren Gamaliel; historian; historiography; Jim Crow; labor; labor rights; labor strike; laborer; liberty bond; Lincoln, Abraham; lynching; migrant labor; migrant worker; New York Stock Exchange; oral history; organizing; Ortiz, Paul; phosphate; phosphate industry; podcast; race relation; racial violence; racism; Reconstruction; Republican; Republican Party; RICHES Podcast Documentaries; Robert Cassanello; Rockefeller, John Davison, Sr.; Samuel Proctor Oral History Program; segregation; sheriff; slave; slavery; State of Florida; strike; Thrift stamp; turpentine; turpentine industry; UF; University of Florida; violence; voter registration; voter registration movement; voting; voting rights; wages; Wells-Barnett, Ida Bell; Wells, Ida Bell; worker rights; World War I; WWI
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 Marva Y. Hawkins
Tags: 13th Street; African American; African Methodist Episcopal Church; AME; CAIT; celery industry; CHS; church; cop; Crooms Academy; Crooms Academy of Information Technology; Crooms High School; desegregaiton; education; employee; Goldsboro; Goldsboro Avenue; Goldsboro Elementary School; Goldsboro Red School; graduation; Hawkins, Marva Y.; Hawkins' Meat Market; high school; Historic Goldsboro Boulevard; integration; labor; laborer; law enforcement; meat; meat industry; migrant labor; migrant laborer; migrant worker; police; race relations; reunion; Sanford; scholarship; school; segregation; Seminole High School; Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church; SHS; Snarky's; St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church; The Sanford Herald; Thirteenth Street; worker
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
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
Letter from Robert D. Moran to Pilgrim Black
Tags: Bigham, Patricia Ann Black; Black, Patricia Ann; Black, Pilgrim; employee; Fair Labor Standards Act; farm; farming; Georgetown; laborer; migrant labor; migrant worker; minimum wage; Moran, Robert D.; Sanford; U.S. Department of Labor; wage; Wage and Hour Division; worker; Workplace Standards Administration
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
Oral History of Bette Skates, 2010
Tags: A History of the First Baptist Church, Sanford, Florida, 1884-1984; agriculture; Alicia Clarke; Austin Smith; Baptist Church; Belair Grove; Bette Skates; Brooks; Camp Monroe; celery; Chase and Company; Chase Groves Condominium; Christmas; church; churches; citrus; citrus groves; City of Sanford; congregations; crime rates; crimes; desegregation; Downtown Sanford; enterprises; Episcopal Church; fires; First Baptist Church; First Baptist Church of Sanford; First United Methodist Church; First United Methodist Church of Sanford; Florida State Road 46; Forrest Lake; Fort Mellon; Fort Reed; Fourth Street; French Avenue; Gateway to South Florida; Gertrude Dupuy; Gertrude Dupuy Sanford; Grace Marie Stinecipher; Halifax River; Harman; Henry B. Plant; Henry Bradley Plant; Henry Flagler; Henry Morrison Flagler; Henry Shelton Sanford; Holeman; Holy Cross Episcopal Church; hurricanes; integration; Josh Chase; Joshua Coffin Chase; Julia Chase; Korean War; Lake Mary; Laura Chase; Lyman Phelps; Mellonville; memorials; Methodist church; migrant labor; migrant workers; missionaries; missionary; Museum of Seminole County History; NAS Sanford; Naval Air Station Sanford; orange groves; race relations; Ran Chase; Randall Chase, Jr.; Randall Chase, Sr.; Sanford; St. Gertrude Grove; Sydney Octavius Chase, Sr.; Thursday Night Alive; veterans; Whipple; World War II; WWII
Letter from E. R. Trafford to Henry Shelton Sanford (February 10, 1883)
Lula Mae Haynes Black and Pilgrim Black in New York
Tags: agricultural laborer; Bigham, Patricia Ann Black; Black, Lula Mae Haynes; Black, Patricia Ann; Black, Pilgrim; farm labor; farm laborer; Haynes, Lula Mae; Huron, New York; kitchen; laborer; migrant crew leader; migrant labor; migrant worker; restaurant; Upstate New York; Wayne County, New York