Walter Mondale in Living History, by Hillary Rodham Clinton


On Jobs: 1970: Held hearings on migrant farmworker conditions

Senator Walter "Fritz" Mondale of Minnesota, later Vice President under Jimmy Carter, decided to hold Senate hearings to investigate the living and working conditions of migrant farmworkers. The 1970 hearings coincided with the 10-year anniversary of Edward R. Murrow's famous television documentary Harvest of Shame, which had shocked Americans in 1960 with its expose of the deplorable treatment migrants endured.

Often farmworkers and their children were--and still too often are--deprived of basics like decent housing and sanitation. Cesar Chavez started the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, organizing workers into the California fields, but conditions in most of the rest of the country hadn't changed much since 1960.

Source: Living History, by Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 47-48 Nov 1, 2003

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