United farm workers

Variant names
Dates:
Active 1963
Active 1996

History notes:

Collected by Fr. Victor Salandini.

From the description of Clippings from first convention, 1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019377

The National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) was founded in 1962 by César E. Chávez and other Mexican-American community activists in Delano, California. In 1966, the NFWA merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to form the United Farm Workers of America, the first successful and largest effort ever to organize agricultural laborers in the United States. Envisioned by Chávez as both a union and a civil rights movement, the UFW has always been committed to the use of non-violent tactics - such as boycotts, strikes and legal action - in its fight to win basic labor rights to its constituency. Since Chávez's death in 1993, the union has been presided over by Arturo Rodriguez.

From the guide to the United Farm Workers Printed Matter Collection, 1970-1979, (Amherst College Archives and Special Collections)

From the guide to the United Farm Workers Collection, 1963-1974, null, (State of Maryland and Historical Collections)

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Subjects:

  • Agricultural laborers
  • Agricultural laborers
  • Agriculture
  • Boycotts
  • Labor
  • Labor History
  • Labor unions
  • Mexican Americans
  • Migrant agricultural laborers
  • Migrant labor
  • Strikes and lockouts
  • Agricultural laborers

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Places:

  • United States (as recorded)
  • California (as recorded)
  • California (as recorded)
  • California (as recorded)
  • Wisconsin--Madison (as recorded)
  • California (as recorded)
  • California (as recorded)

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