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In the early 1960s, a wave of protests in support of farmworkers' and migrant laborers' rights spread across the nation. The Delano Grape Strike sparked by Filipino farm workers brought attention to the plight of farm workers across the country. Gabriel’s Last Harvest tells a story of an elderly Filipino farm worker who decides to join the United Farm Workers’ strike in a last-ditch effort to get retirement and health benefits.

As racial violence sweeps the nation in the early 1900s, the NAACP and other organizations advocate against extrajudicial lynching against numerous African-American citizens. Cecile’s Brother tells the story of a young Black activist who uses her privilege to pass for white to seek justice for her brother’s lynching and help the NAACP campaign for anti-lynching legislation in the U.S.