Word: migrant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of his proposals seemed surprisingly modest and oddly esoteric for the occasion. He recommended new help for American Indians and migrant workers, research aimed at preventing massive power failures, tougher safety precautions for natural-gas pipelines, development of educational television. He urged legislation to outlaw "all wiretapping, public and private, except when the security of the nation itself is at stake." Another unexpected recommendation was Johnson's plea for an "all-out effort to combat crime." The President expounded on the subject for four fervent minutes, devoting more detail to the subject than any other single item except...
...open-end independent study. Spliced in between the two regular semesters, it gives the students a month each year to pursue a sweep of projects ranging from the study of nonthermal radio emissions of Jupiter and digging up the Mayan past in Yucatán to working with migrant workers in Florida's orange groves...
Delano, California, is 30 miles and 30 years away from the run-down migrant labor camp described in John Steinbeck's novel, "The Grapes of Wrath." It seems a lot closer...
...among the larger valley towns, but it has long prided itself on being the unofficial grape capital of the world. The three counties grouped around the city grow 90% of America's table grapes and a fair percentage of the wine grapes as well, With a steady stream of migrant harvesters and a reliable supply of Mexican and Filipino resident labor, there was nothing in Delano to threaten good harvests and good profits but the occasional summer rains...
Hark, the Harp. Chicago owes its blues eminence largely to an accident of geography. Practically alone among Northern cities, it has absorbed a steady stream of migrant Negroes from Mississippi, where a fertile folk tradition of spirituals, ballads, work songs and field hollers nourishes the blues the way the rich soil of the Delta sprouts cotton. The result is that all the Chicago blues are shot through with the raw purity of emotion, the lyricism and rhythmic subtlety of the Mississippi country style. Now a whole generation of younger performers have added technical polish and a hard driving sound that...