Cesar Chavez in Wisconsin
| Cesar Chavez, the leader of United Farm Workers, is standing at the center of the photograph surrounded by members of the press. Behind him is a photographer with a pipe in his mouth and a camera in his hands. Besides him, someone is holding a pencil and paper taking notes. This is Chavez's first visit to Milwaukee to meet with Jesus Salas of Wisconsin's migrant farm worker union Obreros Unidos (United Workers) for El Centro Hispano-Americano to discuss agreement disputes between growers and farm workers Strikes in Wisconsin were organized by the Obreros Unidos, an independent farm worker labor union effort in the 1960s. Cesar Chávez en Wisconsin Cesar Chávez líder de United Farm Workers, está parado en el centro de la fotografía rodeado de miembros de la prensa. Detrás de él está un fotógrafo con una pipa en su boca y una cámara en sus manos. A su lado, alguien está tomando notas con un lápiz y papel. Esta es la primera visita de Chávez a Milwaukee para conocer a Jesús Salas de Obreros Unidos, un sindicato de trabajadores agrícolas, para El Centro Hispano-Americano y para discutir acuerdos de disputa entre los agricultores y los trabajadores agrícolas. Las huelgas en Wisconsin fueron organizadas por Obreros Unidos, un esfuerzo independiente del sindicato de trabajadores agrícolas durante los años 1960. |
| Image ID: | 92046 |
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| Creation Date: | 1967 |
| Creator Name: | Giffey, David |
| City: | Milwaukee |
| County: | Milwaukee |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | South Madison oral history project and migrant farmworker photographs, 1966-1971, 1999-2000 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | digital file |
| Original Format Number: | 1114000062 |
| Original Dimensions: | 3157 X 3864 pixels |
| Information Sources for Obreros Unidos: Salas, Jesus and Giffey, David. "Lucha por la justicia: Movimiento de los trabajadores migrantes en Wisconsin = Struggle for Justice: The Migrant Farm Worker Labor Movement in Wisconsin." David Giffey, Photos by. Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Labor History Society; 1998. 15 p., and the Wisconsin Labor History website. |
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