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The lettuce strike of 1936
1936
Salinas, California
Packing shed workers struck at the height of the season and the growers answered with a citizens' army, tear gas and a highway patrol under a retired general's direction. Reporters were beaten. Steinbeck watched it and it went into In Dubious Battle and then into the shape of everything he wrote about the valley afterwards.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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