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When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers

by lindaoppenheim | Aug 28, 2018 | Article

Gustavo Arellano relates the story of the summer of 1965 when Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz wanted to recruit 20,000 high schoolers, specifically athletes called the A-TEAM — Athletes in Temporary Employment as Agricultural Manpower, to replace the hundreds of...

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