Word: hardened
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...black-skinned or Spanish-speaking migrant child lives in a world so alien to U.S. culture that missionaries enter mi grant camps to harden themselves for Asia and Africa. The child is a full-fledged field hand at nine-often at six. When he invades a new area, crowded schools wink at attendance laws. Falling behind, he quits school by the fourth grade. He is the nation's greatest single source of illiteracy, and by that handicap, condemned to repeat the hopeless life of his parents. He desperately needs education-and a sense of worth...