Farm Workers Collection 1964-1977

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Farm Workers Collection 1964-1977

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This small collection documents the social and political conditions, theaccomplishments, setbacks, and outlook of/for hired farm workers, migratory farm workers, andsharecroppers in the United States in the 1960s. Rural poverty, wages, child labor, health andsafety issues, housing, and education are prevalent themes, illuminated via annual reports to theBoard of Directors of the National Sharecroppers Fund and ephemera produced by the UnitedFarm Workers Organizing Committee.

1 folder plus 1 oversize poster

eng,

spa,

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United Farm Workers Organizing Committee

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The Independent Workers Association was organized by Eugene Nelson in the Rio Grande Valley in 1966. It affiliated that year with the National Farm Workers Association which then merged soon after with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to form the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. Though represented heavily with Mexican-Americans the migrant farm workers movement also included white and black farm workers. From the guide to the Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Move...

National Sharecroppers' Fund (U.S.)

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The Southern Rural Training Project was sponsored by the Southern Sharecroppers' Fund and funded through the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity. The project was designed to assist in the development of community action, education, and job-training programs in the rural areas of Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. From the description of Southern Rural Training Project records, 1967-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476694 ...