55 Coachella

53 Coachella
Although Filipino workers were a large and important part of the farm labor workforce in the Coachella Valley from the 1920s to the 1970s, very few grape workers come from the Philippines today. Elmer Toribio, a crew foreman, came from the Philippines in the 1970s.

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