Date: | 1969 |
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Description: | A benefit gathering at James Rector People's Park to support the United Farmworkers (UFW) grape boycott. The UFW sign, with its eagle symbol, posted in th... |
Date: | 1966 |
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Description: | An Obreros Unidos (United Workers) member holding a sign, possibly like those in the background, that says "Juntarnos Para Ser Reconocidos/Hablar Para Ser ... |
Date: | 1970 |
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Description: | Migrant farm workers harvesting tomatoes in the Rio Grande Valley. Obreros Unidos (United Workers) grew in Wisconsin during the 1960s and had deep roots ... |
Date: | 1969 |
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Description: | Fall River Canning Company's president William Evans stands in the center with migrant farm workers around him after their walkout. Eighty workers of His... |
Date: | 1969 |
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Description: | Roberto Hernandez (left) and Esequiel Guzman (center) work on the layout of "La Guardia" newspaper. The underground bilingual newspaper was published in Sp... |
Date: | 1969 |
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Description: | Jon P. Wilcox (far left), cucumber grower and state legislator, crossing the grape boycott picket line at a Kroger store. In 1969, Grape boycotts in Wiscon... |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | Francisco Rodriguez of Crystal City, Texas is picketing a Wautoma grocery store during the grape boycott in 1968. Grape boycotts in Wisconsin were organize... |
Date: | 1967 |
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Description: | Jesus Salas, center, is the leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a Chicano migrant workers' rights group started in the 1960s for the improvement of ... |
Date: | 1967 |
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Description: | A seated young man looking into the camera watches over polls during a historic union election in Neshkoro. In the center, the ballot box is placed in fron... |
Date: | 1967 |
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Description: | Two men sitting in front of Hartford Store cucumber receiving station watch over polls on union election day. The ballot box is on the left side of the tab... |
Date: | 1970 |
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Description: | Chicano migrant farm workers being transported to a field on a cold Texas winter morning on the back of a truck. This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-n... |
Date: | 1967 |
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Description: | Migrant farm workers meeting in Bancroft after a strike. There are four men wearing hats standing in front of a women's outhouse. Strikes in Wisconsin were... |
Date: | 1967 |
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Description: | The man standing in a suit and dark tie with glasses to the left is Charles Heymanns, international organizer for AFL-CIO. Seated to his right in a light s... |
Date: | 1967 |
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Description: | Standing on the hood of the car in a striped short-sleeved shirt and sunglasses is Salvador Sanchez, an organizer for Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a Wi... |
Date: | 1967 |
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Description: | 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 photograph... |
Date: | 1967 |
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Description: | On the right, Jesus Salas, leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), Wisconsin's migrant farm worker union. On the left, John Schmitt, president of the AF... |
Date: | 1967 |
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Description: | On the left, Bill Smith, administrative assistant for Obreros Unidos (United Workers), the Wisconsin migrant farm workers' union. On the right, Mark Erenbe... |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | At the center of the photograph, in hat, is Manuel Salas. One is Father Michael Garrigan, dressed in black. Chuck Miller is shown at left, and Father Mich... |
Date: | 08 15 1966 |
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Description: | Father Michael Garrigan in the background wearing a white robe and glasses holding 8 a.m. mass at St. Joseph's Church with 30 marchers before a Obreros Uni... |
Date: | 08 15 1966 |
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Description: | 30 marchers of Obreros Unidos (United Workers) march from Wautoma to Madison on Highway 21 to petition lawmakers to hold farms and food industry corporatio... |
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