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African American Farmworkers
Something in history that is not taught enough is how some of the first ever farmworkers where those who came here enslaved, and later their descendants. African American Farmworkers played a huge role in the farm work done in the early 1900's and well into the 1960's in California fields. Many time we are able to see the injustices that mostly Hispanic/Latino farmworkers go through, but something we do heard about is all the contributions African American families made to the field. One of the times we see this is with the sharecropping system put in place to have African Americans work on land they provided with the ability of keeping some of the crops produced (cite)

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Farmworker Justice is a nonprofit fighting for the rights to better conditions and living wages for farmworkers in the United States. Many farmworkers in the United States have not been able to work under livable working conditions and not only are they affect but their families are as well. They help raise awareness of current issues that affect farmworks in the United States and the solutions that are possible.