Ellen R Baker: 1 book
On Strike and on Film
Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In 1950, Mexican American miners went on strike for fair working conditions in Hanover, New Mexico. When an injunction prohibited miners from picketing, their wives took over the picket lines--an unprecedented act that disrupted mining families but ultimately ensured the strikers' victory in 1952....
