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Bloody fight in lettuce fields

Chicago Tribune article on from February 25th 1979 on the Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike.

Submitted by Mike Harman on February 8, 2017
  • United States
  • strikes
  • agriculture
  • United Farm Workers
  • Imperial Valley lettuce strike 1979

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