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Lewis, Jon. Photographs and film of Cesar Chavez and agricultural labor activities in California.

Title: Photographs and film of Cesar Chavez and agricultural labor activities in California. 1966-2004.

Photographs and a digital transfer of a documentary film created by Jon Lewis that document the activities of Cesar Chavez, the National Farm Workers Association, and United Farm Workers Organizing Committee in California, 1966-1971. The digital transfer of the film and the color ink jet photographic print were created by Lewis, 2004. Images include migrant agricultural laborers picketing a field of table grape growers in Delano, California, January 1966, including informal portraits of men identified as Campos and Zapata. Images of a peregrinación (pilgrimage) from Delano to Sacramento, March-April 1966, including informal portraits of Chavez and views of marchers and flag bearers holding flags for the National Farm Workers Association and a banner that depicts the Our Lady of Guadalupe. A color ink jet photographic print depicts an image of Chavez during the march. An image depicts a meeting of individuals employed by the Di Giorgio Fruit Corporation immediately prior to a vote whether to join the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, August 1966. Other incidental images during 1966 include an informal portrait of labor leader Dolores Huerta; a man picketing the Di Giorgio Fruit Corporation, a woman during a summertime union rally; a boy sitting on grape crates of the El Rancho Farms and an elderly woman walking in a field during the grape harvest in the late summer; and an informal portrait of Chavez in the autumn. Images related to a fast of resistance by Chavez in March 1968, include an informal portrait of him and individuals at a candlelight vigil held in his honor. Another image shows Chavez with Robert F. Kennedy during a demonstration, probably held in conjunction with a committee hearing held by the California State Senate at the end of his fast. The documentary film entitled "Nosotros Venceremos" (We shall overcome) with the opening title of "La huelga de la una en Delano" ("The strike of the grape in Delano) was produced by Lewis in 1971 and was used as a promotional tool by the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. The videodisc documents the events of 1966 using photographic imagery that depicts of picket lines, individual farm workers, the march from Delano to Sacramento, the fast of Chavez, and the announcement of a contract between the union and growers with a soundtrack of hymns and speeches in Spanish recorded by Eliezer Lozada Risco.

ArchivalResource: 24 photographic prints : b&w ; 25.2 x 20.3 cm.1 ink jet print : b&w ; 25.2 x 20.3 cm.1 videodisc (11 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

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