On a brief trip back to California, Street traveled to the Southern San Joaquin Valley where he witnessed the mass arrests of farmworkers on strike at the Guimarra Vineyards, near Arvin. Seeing deputies manhandling a defiant sixteen year-old striker named Marta Rodr*guez, Street abandoned his original scholarly plans and turned his attention to California farmworkers. Thirty-five years later he tracked down Rodr*guiez, and interviewed and photographed her.
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