Caring for the Whole Family

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Image courtesy of The Texas Collection, in Church Women United in Waco records, Accession #2073, The Texas Collection, Baylor University.
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Migrant workers often traveled with their entire family.  To help care for young children, volunteer organizations in Waco, such as Church Women United, ran a kindergarten and a nursery during working hours.

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By Maria Petrolia
The rapid rise of migrant labor in Texas in the 1940s brought large numbers of laborers to Waco. To accommodate this new situation, the city of Waco acquired funds to build the Waco Farm Labor Camp, a…