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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[La Casita Farms (1966)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Labor]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Civil rights]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Strikes and lockouts]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In 1966 a bitter dispute between farmworkers and owners of La Casita Farms, El Texano Ranch, and Griffen &amp; Brand farms took place in Starr County. Farmworkers harvesting melons demanded minimum wage and improved working conditions. Their strike culminated in “La Marcha,” or the march of farmworkers and organizers from Rio Grande City to the state capital in Austin, Texas.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1966]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Rio Grande City, Texas]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Roma, Texas]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Starr County, Texas]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Austin, Texas]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.utrgv.edu/items/show/1603">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Development of the Magic Valley: Work &amp; Labor]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Sharyland, irrigation, railroad, laborers, canals, clearing land, hand labor, workers]]></dcterms:subject>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.utrgv.edu/items/show/187">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Peonage Lesson Plan]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Peonage]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Forced labor]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Race relations]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Indentured servants]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Social conditions]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Forced labor--slavery]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Peonage, also known as debt slavery, was used an option for farmers to control labor. The Raymondville peonage cases, which were the first of their kind in Texas history, were tried in the Nueces County federal court in January 1927. Although the practice was illegal, peonage labor was used during the early twentieth century in some counties of South Texas, where it had become common to force laborers, usually Mexican or African Americans but also whites, to work off debts owed to farmers. During times of labor shortage the practice included charging individuals with vagrancy in order to force them into labor; &quot;friendly farmers&quot; paid off their fines and then had the prisoners work off the debt by picking cotton, often under armed guard. <br />
<br />
Handbook of Texas Online, Alicia A. Garza, &quot;RAYMONDVILLE PEONAGE CASES,&quot; accessed July 29, 2019, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/pqreq. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Grade 4]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Ana Cerda]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Lezly Gonzalez]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Melissa Cantu]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[UTRGV College of Education]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[EDCI3335.32]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Spring 2019]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and University Archives]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1865]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1927]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[University of Texas Rio Grande Valley]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[UTRGV College of Education]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Stephanie Anckle]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Cerda, Ana, Gonzalez, Lezly, and Cantu, Melissa. (2019). Lesson Plan for Peonage Lesson Plan. Retrieved from. https://rgvprimarysourceguides.omeka.net/files/show/96]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[PDF]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[LessonPlan-Peonage-CerdaGonzalezCantu]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Raymondville, Texas]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.utrgv.edu/items/show/55">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Melon Strike Begins]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Strikes]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Rio Grande Valley]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Starr County, Texas]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Chicano movement]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Melon Strike]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Texas Farm Workers Union]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Mexican Americans]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A newspaper clipping from <em>El Cuhamil</em>, announcing the beginning of a melon strike. The Texas Farm Worker's Union started the strike in a rally May 16, 1976.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and University Archives]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[El Cuhamil (San Juan, TX)]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1976-05-20]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:relation><![CDATA[<a href="https://utrgv.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991007787899704696&amp;context=L&amp;vid=01UT_RGV_INST:UTRGV&amp;search_scope=Search_All&amp;tab=Search_All&amp;lang=en">El Cuhamil Record</a>]]></dcterms:relation>
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    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Text]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[COE-MELONSTRIKES-MelonStrikeBegins]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[&quot;Melon Strike Begins.&quot; El Cuhamil, May 20, 1975.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Starr County, Texas]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Rio Grande City, Texas]]></dcterms:coverage>
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