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Two Faces of the UPWA
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Two members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 in New Orleans on strike against the Colonial Sugar Company. They graphically symbolize the UPWA's dedication to organizing African Americans in the South. Although undated this image probably dates to the 1955 strike.
1948
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