“Labor, Latinas, and Luisa” would be a lesson plan designed for a high school or college environment focused around the impact social activist Luisa Moreno had on the American Federation of Labor, Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America. Luisa Moreno is an inspirational woman was the only Latina transcontinental union organizer and worked tirelessly for the causes she cared about. This particular exhibit would focus on her time organizing cannery workers in California. She is a perfect example of the impact Latinos have had on "Making a Living" and her work in California both enriches California history and American Latino history as a whole. This lesson plan would fit
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However, there are a number of interviews conducted with Luisa Moreno that can be requested and accessed through their owners and played to students during the lesson plan to let them hear Luisa, in her own words, explain what she was trying to accomplish at the time the interview took place. One example of a primary source took place in 1971 when Dr. Carlos M. Larralde, a Mexican-American scholar, interviewed Luisa Moreno and quotes from that interview are easily available to find on the internet. These quotes can be used primarily to understand the time in Luisa Moreno’s life when she established El Congreso del Pueblo de Habla Española, a civil rights association in California that fought for civil rights for Latinos and minority groups. Luisa Moreno organized that group and her interviews with Dr. Larralde give further insight into that time in her …show more content…
The source that absolutely cannot be ignored when teaching Luisa Moreno is Vicki Ruiz’s book Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry. Her book specifically talks about the involvement of Mexican women in the UCAPAWA during the 1930’s and 1940’s, the times that Luisa Moreno was the most active in California. She teaches reader about the “cannery culture” that existed within these cannery companies that caused racial and cultural ties and connections between the female cannery workers and their families. She writes about the UCAPAWA’s successful unionizing and boycotting of their workplace due to unsafe and unsanitary working conditions and profiles those in power, including Luisa Moreno. Vicki Ruiz’s book highlights the culture and achievements of Mexican women and gives detailed insight on labor conditions and laws in 1930’s and 1940’s America. Since the lesson plan would be taught to California students, Ruiz’s book has a section on Luisa Moreno’s involvement with the Val Vita canning plant in Fullerton and her work in the San Joaquin Valley and Los Angeles County, connecting students to familiar
However, there are a number of interviews conducted with Luisa Moreno that can be requested and accessed through their owners and played to students during the lesson plan to let them hear Luisa, in her own words, explain what she was trying to accomplish at the time the interview took place. One example of a primary source took place in 1971 when Dr. Carlos M. Larralde, a Mexican-American scholar, interviewed Luisa Moreno and quotes from that interview are easily available to find on the internet. These quotes can be used primarily to understand the time in Luisa Moreno’s life when she established El Congreso del Pueblo de Habla Española, a civil rights association in California that fought for civil rights for Latinos and minority groups. Luisa Moreno organized that group and her interviews with Dr. Larralde give further insight into that time in her …show more content…
The source that absolutely cannot be ignored when teaching Luisa Moreno is Vicki Ruiz’s book Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry. Her book specifically talks about the involvement of Mexican women in the UCAPAWA during the 1930’s and 1940’s, the times that Luisa Moreno was the most active in California. She teaches reader about the “cannery culture” that existed within these cannery companies that caused racial and cultural ties and connections between the female cannery workers and their families. She writes about the UCAPAWA’s successful unionizing and boycotting of their workplace due to unsafe and unsanitary working conditions and profiles those in power, including Luisa Moreno. Vicki Ruiz’s book highlights the culture and achievements of Mexican women and gives detailed insight on labor conditions and laws in 1930’s and 1940’s America. Since the lesson plan would be taught to California students, Ruiz’s book has a section on Luisa Moreno’s involvement with the Val Vita canning plant in Fullerton and her work in the San Joaquin Valley and Los Angeles County, connecting students to familiar