Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
1. Jan. 1997 · The Fight in the Fields follows the first successful organizing drive of farm workers in the United States, while recounting the many failed and dramatic attempts to unionize that led up to this victory. Among the many barriers to organizing was the Bracero Program, which flooded the fields with Mexican contract workers between World ...
The Fight in the Fields follows the first successful organizing drive of farm workers in the United States, while recounting the many failed and dramatic attempts to unionize that led up to this victory. Among the many barriers to organizing was the Bracero Program, which flooded the fields with Mexican contract workers between World War II and ...
The Fight in the Fields: Directed by Rick Tejada-Flores, Ray Telles. With Daryl Arnold, Jerry Brown, LeRoy Chatfield, Cesar Chavez. This documentary traces the history of the United Farmworkers Union and the life of its founder, Cesar Chavez, from his birth in Arizona, his education into organizing and non-violence, his formation of the union ...
- (29)
- Documentary, Biography
- Rick Tejada-Flores, Ray Telles
- 1997-01
13. Apr. 1997 · “The Fight in the Fields” is, in the end, a romantic but incomplete account of a history that is still being lived in the “factories in the field,” as Carey McWilliams once wrote. It is...
A film profiling farmworker leader Cesar Chavez and the United Farmworkers Union he founded.
Using archival footage, newsreel, and present-day interviews with Ethel Kennedy, former California Governor Jerry Brown, Dolores Huerta, and Chávez’s brother, sister, son, and daughter, the documentary traces the remarkable contributions of Chávez and others involved in this epic struggle.
El Cortito, “the short one,” was a hoe that was only twenty-four inches long, forcing the farmworkers who used it to bend and stoop all day long—a position that often led to lifelong, debilitating back injuries. The pool-room meeting with a handful of its victims led Jourdane to try working in nearby fields for two days.
