Field Notes 5

During the Great Depression Mexican American had to take their children to work to get some more money. Soon Mexican American children, along with other non-white children, were often not allowed in white schools.


During the Great Depression Mexican American Farmer were usually living in spartan shacks. Water had to be carried from rivers or ditch, exposing themselves sickness because of the farming chemicals.

The man in the picture used to work in the farm in which he had to do works that Californian farmers claimed white men could and should not be hired to do.
Why? Because they claimed that Mexican were physically "suited" for that kind of jobs. The man in the picture was performing the kind of back-breaking.
During the great depression it was the only job Mexican American could find.

Most of the Mexican Americans where deported to Mexico by the government plan using "repatriation" which plan was to send Mexican immigrants back to Mexico in busloads and boxcars.