Forged Under the Sun/Forjado bajo el sol: The Life of María Elena Lucas - María Elena Lucas, Fran Leeper Buss

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Forged Under the Sun/Forjado bajo el sol: The Life of María Elena Lucas, María Elena Lucas with Fran Leeper Buss, 1993, United States, ORAL HISTORY

"...Initially, she sets up a social service agency with other women to ease burdens suffered by all; eventually, she becomes a spokesperson for the Farm Workers Organizing Committee...Permanently disabled in 1988 by pesticide spray, María Elena Lucas continues to fight for the rights of poor, working women."

(H.S., p. 376)