Central Coast Farm Labor Organizing Collection circa 1960-2003 1999-2002

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Central Coast Farm Labor Organizing Collection circa 1960-2003 1999-2002

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The Central Coast Farm Labor Organizing Collection contains materials relating to migrant farm workers on the Central Coast of California, including oral histories, reports, correspondence, strike ephemera, and secondary sources. Photographs taken by Manuel Echavarria documenting the United Farm Worker movement and used in the exhibit " " are included in the collection. iViva la Causa! A Decade of Farm Labor Organizing on the Central Coast

7 boxes, (8.58 linear feet)

eng,

Special Collections, Robert E. Kennedy Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6654264

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Cuauhtémoc, Lara

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Valle, Victor M., 1950-

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