Papers, 1949-1989.

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Papers, 1949-1989.

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Typescript drafts and printed copies of an article about teaching public school in a migrant labor camp in Cutchogue, N.Y. (article printed in Long Island Forum, Summer 1989). Background material on the school, the labor camp in Cutchogue, and labor camps throughout New York State; school floorplans, rules, schedules, course outlines, and a lesson plan book; lists of students; reports about the school and lists of problems; letters from parents of children at the school; and photographs of students, the schoolroom, and other buildings at the labor camp. There are bulletins and reports from the United States Department of Labor and various New York State agencies about labor camps in New York; letters, newsletters and other materials from church and welfare agencies concerning conditions at the camps; clippings, 1956-1961, and a map of migrant labor camps in Suffolk County, c. 1960.

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United States. Department of Labor

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The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government, responsible for occupational safety and health, wage and hour standards, unemployment benefits, reemployment services, and occasionally, economic statistics. Many U.S. states also have such departments. The Department of Labor is headed by the U.S. Secretary of Labor. The purpose of the Department of Labor is to foster, promote, and develop the well being of the wage earners, job seekers,...

Prince, Helen Wright, 1911-

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Teacher. Helen Wright Prince taught from 1949-1960 in the only public school established in a labor camp in New York State. The camp was established in the late 1940s to provide farm labor during the harvest season. The laborers were primarily African Americans from the southern United States. Because of increased mechanization in the 1960s, most camps in the state closed. From the description of Papers, 1949-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155557215 ...