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Monthly Archives: April 2020
Ten-Gallon Crock
Electric Chair Helen D., an old woman with the booming voice, clasped her hands under her heavy breasts. “Geez, I was just a girl. I had four babies of my own at home, a sick husband, and all my brothers … Continue reading
Posted in abortion, birth control, Health care, Inequality, Injustice, miners, poverty, Uncategorized, white Americans, widows
Tagged abortion, birth control, Inequality, injustice, miners, poverty, Supreme Court, white Americans, Women's Issues
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Lucia and the Farm Workers’ Flag
The Crate Lucia came north to Chicago from Mexico, nailed in a crate in back of a trunk in the winter. An old woman packed above her prayed for hours, then gasped for air, trembled, and lay still. A fifteen … Continue reading
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Tagged farm workers, Immigrants, Latina, Mexican American, poverty, protest, religion, resistance, unions, United Farm Workers
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Prisoners and Peas
The Values of Her Mother Mary Robinson, an African American woman from Alabama, was 57 years-old when we talked in 2000. I was an oral historian, and my tape recorder ran on a nearby chair. Mary described a terrifying experience … Continue reading
Posted in African American, Distrust, Inequality, Injustice, love. mother, Poverty, poverty, Prisons, Racism, Social Justice, Uncategorized, white Americans
Tagged African Americans, fear, food, goodness, love, mother, poverty, prisoners, sharecroppers, sharing, sheriffs, white Americans
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The Vow
The Wound The nearly grown corn glistened in the sun and seemed to speak to me. Its whispers may have saved my life. Blood still flowed from the wound between my legs. However, that wound was private. I could barely … Continue reading
Posted in Distrust, Health care, Inequality, Injustice, Poverty, Racism, Social Justice, Uncategorized, Welfare, Women's Issues
Tagged children, disability, divorce, eugenics, feminism, hope, inspiration, kidnapping, medical violence, poverty, Social justice, sterilization, suicide, violence, vow, welfare, women's movement
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The Crack in the Sky
Behind a Tree “When I was a little girl, and we were working as farm workers in Portage, Ohio, I remember that they had found workers stealing food from the comisario,” Maria Elena Lucas began. “We were hungry too, but … Continue reading
Posted in farm workers, Injustice, Latino, Mexican Americans, Poverty, religion, Uncategorized
Tagged children, farm workers, Latino, Mexican American, migrants, poetry, poverty, religion, spirituality
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