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In the early 1920s, Sonora, Mexico, suffered from extreme poverty that plagued many Mexican mining communities of that era. Without a secure government for the people, Sonoran mining settlements were economically depressed and villages were continually raided. The families of Manuel Encinas and Cecilia Romero decided to escape these conditions by following migrant farm work from Nogales, Mexico through the cotton fields of Arizona. Workers labored in the fields chopping both cotton and weeds and picking cotton.
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Biography Research Submitted by Mary Polanco-Gerlach & Diane Brown
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