American Experience

Los Mineros

Directed by Hector Galan
TV-PG
S3 • E12    Jan 27, 1991    55m
The story of Mexican American miners -- "los mineros" -- whose pitched labor battles, beginning with the first strike in 1903, shaped the course of Arizona history. It was only in 1946 that the two-tier wage system for whites and Mexicans was abolished. The film recounts the rise and fall of three small towns -- Superior, Clifton-Morenci and Sonora -- where the mining of copper ore dominated the lives of all the inhabitants.

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Cast of Los Mineros

  • Luis ValdezGuest Star
  • Hector GalanDirector
  • Paul EspinosaWriter

 

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