Working with the Short-Handled Hoe: Organizing Farmworkers after World War II

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Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Working with the Short-Handled Hoe: Organizing Farmworkers after World War II
This teacher’s resource challenges students to think about the short-handled hoe and its connection to agriculture and the organizing of Latino farm workers after World War II. It includes a preliminary activity intended to introduce students to doing history with objects and 3 lesson plans focused …