Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection 1951-1977

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Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection 1951-1977

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utarl/00082/00082-P.html

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Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library

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Nelson, Eugene, 1929-

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National Farm Workers Association

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Independent Workers Association

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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...