Agricultural laborers -- California.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Tom Dalzell United Farm Workers of America collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0356
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),...
Dates:
1966 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1976
David F. Selvin United Farm Workers (UFW) collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0167
Scope and Contents
Research files of Selvin related to Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers (UFW).
Dates:
1964 - 1978
Gayanne Fietinghoff photographs and slides of California farmworkers collection
Collection
Identifier: larc-pho-0068
Abstract
This collection of photographs, slides, contact sheets, and negatives by United Farm Workers (UFW) staff photographer Gayanne Fietinghoff documents the work and home lives of California’s Central Valley farmworkers from 1972 to 1977. While employed by the UFW from 1972 to 1975, Fietinghoff trained her lens on the struggles of farmworkers, who were primarily Mexican American and Filipino American, working in the fields and participating in UFW activities and events. Fietinghoff captured UFW...
Dates:
1971-1982; Majority of material found within 1972-1977
Edgar T. Monk scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0198
Abstract
Consists of three scrapbooks compiled by Edgar T. Monk; Volumes I and II relate to organizing California farmworkers in the mid 1970s, including the struggle between the Teamsters and the United Farmworkers (UFW), and the Gallo and Lucky Stores boycotts/campaigns. Volume III contains clippings from various mainstream and labor papers, including the East Bay Labor Journal and News and Views (published by the International...
Dates:
1967 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1974
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