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Perley Payne oral history
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Identifier: larc-oh-payne
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with Perley Payne conducted by Fred Hirsh. Discusses growing up in a pioneer farming family in the Santa Clara Valley; agricultural and orchard work in the 1930s, including labor conditions for bindlestiffs and itinerant agricultural laborers; organizing cannery workers in Campbell. Discusses being recruited to go fight in the Spanish civil war as an Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteer; attitudes toward "premature anti-fascists" when they returned home; worked at...
Dates:
1999 March 17
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Faith Craig Petric oral history
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Identifier: larc-oh-petric
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with Faith Craig Petric conducted by Estelle Freedman. Describes her social work with poor and migrant farm workers, 1930s and 1940s; her time as a ship fitter during World War II; her longtime affiliations with the I.W.W., the California State Employees Association, the San Francisco Folk Music Club, and the Freedom Song Network; her career as a folk singer; and her life as a single mother, feminist, and committed leftist.
Dates:
1993 March 7-June7
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
John Sanchez oral history
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Identifier: larc-oh-sanchez
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with John Sanchez conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Former agricultural worker; recalls killing of unionists by growers in Pixley, California, during 1933 Central Valley cotton strike; describes harsh living and working conditions of Central Valley’s Mexican American cotton pickers, 1930s, and impact of mechanization, 1938-1941.
Dates:
1998 March 31
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Elizabeth Schilling Watsonville canneries strike collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0428
Abstract
This collection includes materials collected and produced by journalist Elizabeth Schilling in the course of researching and reporting on the Watsonville canneries strike between 1985 and 1988. Materials include Schilling's research and interview notes; newspaper clippings documenting the strike and its aftermath; flyers, leaflets, newsletters, and press releases from Teamsters Local 912, Teamsters for a Democratic Union, Shaw's, Watsonville Canning and Frozen Foods Co, and community...
Dates:
1985-1988, 2017
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Peter Shapiro Watsonville Canneries Strike Interviews
Collection
Identifier: larc-oh-shapiro
Dates:
2009-2014
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Judith Sutliff collection on the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) and the United Farm Workers (UFW)
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0016
Abstract
The Judith Sutliff collection consists of personal papers donated by Sutliff, gathered while working as a volunteer with the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), and the United Farm Workers (UFW) during the years 1962-1982. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, fliers, fact sheets, press releases, photographs, and a scrapbook.
Dates:
1962-1982
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Rick Tejada-Flores United Farm Workers (UFW) negative and contact sheet collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-pho-0059
Abstract
This is a collection of negatives and contact sheets of photos shot from 1972 through 1975 by Rick Tejada-Flores, who was on staff of the United Farm Workers (UFW) at the time. The collection contains images of UFW events and activities, including campaigns, pickets, boycotts, marches, meetings, picnics, elections, and the opening of a health clinic, all of which took place in Coachella, Salinas, Selma, Bakersfield and other Central Valley locales, and Los Angeles, San Francisco, and...
Dates:
1972-1975
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
United Church of Christ, Northern California Conference records
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0055
Abstract
Minutes, correspondence, resolutions, reports, and newsletters, demonstrating the role of the United Church of Christ, Northern California Conference and affiliated religious organizations in the farm labor movement, California farming communities, and the Conference's strong support for farm workers and small growers, from 1964 to 1986. The collection contains minutes from the California Migrant Ministry (CMM), which co-sponsored programs with the Conference, such as the Tulare County...
Dates:
1961-1986
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
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