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Dawn Byron Hutchins, “Laboring in the Shade,” Connecticut Explored, Summer 20ll.

Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum.

Glasser, Ruth. "Tobacco Valley: Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Connecticut." Connecticut Explored. Fall 2002. Accessed May 23, 2017.

"Migrants' Dissatisfaction Growing Toward Tough Tobacco Camps." Hartford Courant, August 13, 1973,  Accessed May 23, 2017.

The Shade Tobacco Growers Agricultural Association Advertisement, “The Truth about Shade Tobacco,” Hartford Courant , August 26, 1973, p. 44A.

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