Page "Kings County, California" Paragraph 7

In 1933 during the Great Depression, cotton pickers in the southern San Joaquin Valley, mostly migrant Mexican workers, went on strike.

During the strike, 3, 500 striking farm workers lived in a four-acre camp on the land of a small farmer on the outskirts of Corcoran.

Ultimately, the federal government intervened to force both sides to negotiate a settlement.