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Lake Apopka Farmworkers Collection

Collected by: Rollins College

Archived since: Mar, 2014

Description:

The Apopka Farmworkers Collection documents the health crisis resulting from area farmworkers' exposure to pesticides used in farming, and from exposure to environmental contaminants from nearby sites, around Lake Apopka in Central Florida. Farming in the area began in the 1940s and ended in 1998.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Society & Culture Science & Health Agricultural laborers--United States Agricultural laborers--Florida Agricultural laborers--Diseases Social justice Environmental justice

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Title: FSU and UF law students take an alternative spring break

URL: http://www.floridabar.org/DIVCOM/JN/JNNews01.nsf/8c9f13012b96736985256aa900624829/66a1f33d64c1cb3785257f7d00448409/

Description: Students took a “Toxic Tour” throughout Apopka with the Farmworker Association of Florida. They learned about the history of pesticide use in Florida agriculture and its present-day effects on the agricultural workers and lands in Florida.

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Subject:   Agricultural laborers--United States Agricultural laborers--Florida Agricultural laborers--Diseases Social justice Environmental justice

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