Lesson Plan: Migration of Mexicanos in the 1920s

This is a Lesson plan designed for High School students. It takes roughly 60-70 minutes to complete and covers what life was like for people who migrated from Mexico to the United States in the 1920s. This covers the who, what, when, where, and why of migration during...

Family migration in Junction City, c. 1930

Balbina Abad cannot find words to explain her childhood in the early years of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. Or perhaps, she would rather let the words continue to hide within her own mind. As Franco pursued an economic policy of “autarky” to close Spain’s economy...