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My objective is to share how Ethnic groups were used for labor but denied permanent residence. I also included Natives because as we talked about before, Natives lived here before they were pushed off to the side.

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Cesar Chavez Labor Leader

“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.”
“The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.”
Cesar Chavez

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American Natives

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CHINESE IMMIGRANTS

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California Gold Rush caused the Chinese migration to the United States.

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"They built the Great Wall of China, didn't they?"
- Charles Crocker's famous justification for bringing Chinese workers to the Central Pacific, 1865

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Chinese people working on the Central Pacific Railroad.

Chinese Exclusion Act 1882

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Tom Torlino (member of Navajo Nation) before and after picture 1882.
He was forced to look more American so he was stripped of his cultures clothes and hair.

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Native American kids were forced to be "Americanized" and to go to schools, and practice Christianity.

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Trail of Tears 1942 by Robert Lindeux

"We are now about to take our leave and kind farewell to our native land, the country that the Great Spirit gave our Fathers, we are on the eve of leaving that country that gave us birth...it is with sorrow we are forced by the white man to quit the scenes of our childhood... we bid farewell to it and all we hold dear."

~Charles Hicks, Tsalagi (Cherokee) Vice Chief on the Trail of Tears, August 4, 1838

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Presentation inspired by: Chpt 6, Cameo's class Presentation, and Kristen's presentation

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Presentation inspired by: Chpt 6, Cameo's class Presentation, and Kristen's presentation

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People waving goodbye to a train that had 1500 people, which were being expelled and taken back to Mexico in 1931.

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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A photograph of a Mexican Immigrant family having car troubles in February 1936, taken by Dorothea Lange.

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PBS picture of immigrants crossing Suchiate River of Mexico.

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This is a picture of my grandfather who still lives in Mexico, with my aunt, uncle, mom, and my other uncle. This is the picture of the first time they got to see my grandfather after more than 20 years.

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My mother, originally from Mexico migrated here for better working opportunities. (my brother, mother, sister) This is a picture of them picking grapes in the fields.

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IMMIGRANTS CLIPBOARD