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farmworkers' movement  

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  • The farmworkers' movement is a social justice movement that seeks to obtain the rights and fair treatment of migrant farmworkers across the United States. Beginning as early as the 1930s, the movement originally comprised migrant Mexican farmworkers in California, gaining momentum by 1964. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Farmworkers' Movement]

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