PROGRAM INFO
- Title:
- Chicanos In The Midwest: Part 1
- Program #
- 1982-02
- Theme:
- Society
- Series:
- Social Issues
- Host:
- Linda Fregoso
- Guests:
- Andre Guerrero, Virginia Ortega
- Date:
- Dec 1, 1981
Chicanos in the Midwest: Part 1
Guests Andre Guerrero and Virginia Ortega of the Ohio Commission of Spanish Speaking Affairs discuss the problems facing Chicanos in the Midwest and the Commission’s efforts to assist the Chicano Community. Ortega first describes why her family settled in Ohio. Guerrero then talks about the industries and fields that employ Ohio’s Chicanos. They explain that because many people do not associate Chicanos with the Midwest, the national Latino community often overlooks the discrimination and problems they face.
The state of Ohio created the commission to survey these problems and recommend solutions. The commission so far has studied Latino access to education, minority business contracts, migrant housing and labor rights and both guests discuss these issues. Guerrero explains that the commission has found the state to be negligent in educating the Latino population. From pre-school to graduate programs, Latinos have low enrollments and Guerrero believes it is because of the lack of bilingual programs. Ortega then discusses the problems facing Hispanic owned businesses who are having trouble get certified as a minority business because because their birth certificates classify them as white. Guerrero then discusses the efforts of farm workers to organize and secure collective bargaining rights, health living conditions and fair salary. The commission is currently working with other organizations to challenge a Child Labor bill that will lower the legal age that children can work in the fields from 16 to 12. Throughout these actions, the Latino community has remained engaged and dedicated to the struggle.
KEYWORDS
Advocacy GroupsAFL-CIO
Agriculture
Akron
Andre Guerrero
Baldemar Velasquez
Bilingual Programs
Bowling Green Area
Boycott
Cambridge
Campbell’s Soup
Canning
Center for Law and Education
Cesar Chavez
Chicano Community
Child Labor
Children
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Collective Bargaining Rights
Columbus
Cucumbers
Dayton
Education
Farm Workers
FLOC
Food Processing
Hispanics in Higher Education
Housing
Industry
Lau v. Nichols
Libby, McNeill, & Libby
Mechanization
Michigan
Midwest
Migrant Children
Migrant Legal Action Program
Migrants
Minnesota
Minority Owned Business
National Child Labor Committee
New York
Ohio
Ohio Catholic Conference
Ohio Commission of Spanish Speaking Affairs
Ohio Conference of churches
Political Activism
Potable Water
Race
San Antonio
Sugar Beets
Sunbelt
Teachers
Toledo
Tomatoes
Union Busting
Unions
Virginia Ortega
Washington
Youngstown Steel Mills