Unit 4, Lesson 4: How Did Mexican Americans Build a Community in Bryn Mawr?Main MenuHow Did Mexican Americans Build a Community in Bryn Mawr?The Beginnings of the Citrus IndustryEarly Mexican SettlersNot Always WelcomeAmericanizationBuilding A CommunityActivityLearn MoreAudrey Maier0f8f4f35e42fcdb6d08eabfaff98566fef8bbb7f
Picking and Packing Oranges
1media/Widly jpg for FB.tif.jpg2018-07-09T23:43:49-07:00Audrey Maier0f8f4f35e42fcdb6d08eabfaff98566fef8bbb7f308593plain2018-07-16T21:11:16-07:00Audrey Maier0f8f4f35e42fcdb6d08eabfaff98566fef8bbb7fMexican workers in the citrus industry were paid low wages. The men who picked the oranges and the women who packed the oranges were paid based on how many fruits they could pick or pack in a day. The faster they worked the more the workers were paid. Because of this, many families did not make enough money. Sometimes children would work too, in order to help make more money. These child workers were called ratas or “rats” in Spanish because they would scurry around the groves and pick low hanging fruit.
4. Look at this photograph of Mexican school children in Bryn Mawr, notice their work overalls. What would it have been like to work and go to school? How would their work affect the student’s education?
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12018-07-09T17:28:27-07:00Bryn Mawr School Children3A group of Mexican-American students pose for a group picture with their two teachers, most likely Mary E. Felton and Luella Palmer. The Bryn Mawr School was a segregated school which only taught the Mexican-American students who lived in the Mission School District.media/2017.001.015.jpgplain2018-07-09T17:29:58-07:00Loma Linda Area Parks and Historical Society Digital Archive1926Mary Cooke and Eva YanezPhotograph
12018-07-09T17:16:51-07:00Citrus Ranching2A worker climbs a ladder to pick oranges from one of the trees on the Frink Ranch. During the early citrus growing decades the trees were allowed to grow tall. Later ranchers realized the dangers of large trees and annually cut the groves to keep all the trees at a uniform size. This helped to prevent falling accidents and reduce injuries among orange pickers.media/2005.005.021.jpgplain2018-08-06T01:28:31-07:00Loma Linda Area Parks and Historical Society Digital Archiveearly 1900sJoe FrinkPhotograph
