Handout
Gallery Walk Images: Farmworkers’ Movement
Use these images of California farmworkers in the 1960s to facilitate a Big Paper activity.
Subject
- History
- Social Studies
Language
English — USUpdated
How to Cite This Handout
Facing History & Ourselves, “Gallery Walk Images: Farmworkers’ Movement”, last updated March 16, 2020.
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