This short exploratory lesson plan and activity for 4th – 6th-grade students explores how citrus workers made important statements of belonging by taking portraits in the citrus groves.

Southern California’s Citrus Industry, U.S. Advertising, Immigration, Labor History, Portraiture

• Citrus Industry advertising did not represent the work of the industry
• Portraits are an important form of self-expression
• Mexican communities were resilient and used photographs to claim space