Module 3: Filipinas in the Filipino Farmworker Movement
Filipinas were a strong and essential part of the farmworker movement. Long before the movement gained national momentum, these women were a constant source of aid in the farmworker communities that formed from the 1920s–1970s. Despite their smaller numbers, with one Filipina for every twenty Filipinos from 1903 to the 1930s, Filipinas worked as labor organizers and cultural bearers of farmworker communities across rural California.
How did Filipinas participate in the Filipino farmworker movement? What roles did Filipinas have in the farmworker movement?
How was their experience similar and different from men?
What types of justice did they seek? What impact did Filipinas have in the farmworker movement?
