Facing Race is taking you back to the Yakima Valley in the 1960s, where farmworkers fighting for a better life labored under dire conditions to feed the country.
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Irwin Nash/Courtesy Washington State University LibrariesThe Garcia family gathers with friends in an asparagus field in the Yakima Valley in 1968. The image is among thousands taken by Seattle photographer Irwin Nash of migrant agricultural workers in the valley in the 1960s and 1970s.
Irwin Nash/Courtesy Washington State University Libraries
Irwin Nash/Courtesy Washington State University Libraries
Irwin Nash/Courtesy Washington State University Libraries