Labor Unions and Strikes: The Labor Movement & Migrant Workers in Boulder County & Colorado

In this lesson students will read primary and secondary resources regarding the struggles of Migrant Workers in Boulder, CO (1910-1932) and will compare/contrast the struggles with those presented in the film “Salt of the Earth” (1954), based on the strike at the Empire Zinc Company mine in New Mexico (1951).

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Created By: Kristen Klein