A People’s History of the Inland Empire Digital Archive

2011 Calendar page 18, Ilaria (Lala) Alfaro (September/Septiembre)

2021.004.018

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The September calendar page consists of photographs and a postcard about Ilaria (Lala) Alfaro by Linda Salinas-Thompson. From the calendar text: "Lala was raised in the East Side community of Riverside. She recalls her growing-up years so well. She remembers what her parents went through just for the family's welfare during the hard times. She grew up working, quitting school at a very young age to help her family. In those years it was very common to work in the fields doing migrant farm labor work. She worked in Hemet, California cutting apricots. She worked picking potatoes, filling the bag that was tied onto her waist, weighing sixty pounds when it was full. The loading crew would load the bags of potatoes onto a truck, where the potatoes would be washed, and (?) and put into hundred-pound bags, and taken to markets to sell. She picked grapes with her sister working alongside her side. Lala is a woman of many hats ... working all her life and not complaining about it." - Linda Salinas-Thompson.

Mexican-American History

The Great Depression

Inland Empire

20th Century

Unknown

2011, 1930s-1940s

Riverside County Mexican American Historical Society (RCMAHS)

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English, Spanish