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Cesar Chavez, circa 1972-1975

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Sub-series 2.1

Scope and Contents

From the Sub-Series:

Sub-Series 2.1, United Farm Workers, consists of images taken from 1972 to 1975 when Fietinghoff was a staff photographer for UFW. Contains images of protest, including the march on E & J Gallo Winery, No on Proposition 22 demonstration, Farm Bureau picket, demonstrations against Guimarra Ranch and Kovacevich Farms, picketing of Safeway and liquor stores selling Gallo wine, and a women's demonstration inside the Teamsters building in Burlingame, where women with their children intended to show the Teamsters that they were not intimidated by them and that they wanted UFW union representation. This sub-series contains an Arizona folder with images from Cesar Chavez's 1972 fast at Santa Rita Hall, and farmworkers and children in onion fields. Also contains photos of Farmworkers Weekend in Los Angeles; the 1973 UFW Convention; union campaigning; the funeral of Yemeni UFW organizer Nagi Daifullah, who died from a beating by a Kern County Sheriff's deputy; UFW headquarters La Paz in Keene; and Agbayani Village, the filipino retirement housing community located on the Forty Acres property in Delano. This sub-series includes designated folders for the following UFW leaders and supporters: Cesar Chavez, Chris Hartmire, Juan de la Cruz, Jerry Cohen, Dorothy Day, Joan Baez, and theater director Peter Brook, who collaborated with El Teatro Campesino. Some of these people, and others who do not have a designated folder (such as Dolores Huerta, Pancho Botello, and Dennis Banks), are pictured in other photographs interspersed throughout the sub-series. Also includes photos by Rick Tejada-Flores located in one designated folder and a few dispersed throughout the sub-series. This sub-series contains photographs by manong Sebastain Sahugan, veteran of AWOC (Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, composed primarily of filipino farmworkers) and UFW, who served as a photographer for UFW. There are also reproduced images from the film stock of Tejada-Flores's documentary Si Se Puede! Includes one photo by Bill Ravensi of the original group of filipino farmworker strikers taken at Agbayani Village in 1976.

Dates

  • circa 1972-1975

Availability

Collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Series: 45 folders (Carton 1, folders 6-40; Oversize-box 1)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository

Contact:
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571