The miners' lament

author: Cummings, Judy Dodge
In 1951 Alba, New Mexico, when her father forbids her from pursuing her dream of performing Mexican ballads as a "corridisto" and participating on the picket line because she is a girl, twelve-year-old Ana Maria finds a way to help during the long strike for better working and living conditions for the miners at Empire Zinc.
year: 2022
call number/section: 1000
subjects: mexican americans, fiction, father-daughter relationship, historical fiction
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