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Abstract United Farm Workers organizing and boycott material including leaflets (mostly in Spanish, some in Arabic), brochures, pamphlets, clippings, organizers' autobiographical notes, correspondence, a calendar, convention documents, and texts of legislation (1974-1975). Also includes leaflets issued by Teamster Farm Worker Local 1973, and other anti-UFW material created by the Teamsters. In addition, the collection contains a transcription of an oral history of Jim Leap by Sarah Rabkin (2008),...

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Primarily leaflets in Spanish related to the United Farm Workers organizing and contract drives in the Imperial Valley (1977-1978). Subject topics include farm worker organizing (Arakelian, Jack Brothers, Inter-Harvest, Colace Bros., Signal Produce, Gourmet, Sun World/Abatti, C.A.O) The Plan of Delano, and the UFW's 1976 statewide Yes on Proposition 14 campaign. Most leaflets were written and designed by Nori and featured artwork by Alberto Escalante.