National Farm Workers Association records regarding the Delano Grape Boycott, 1965-1967.

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National Farm Workers Association records regarding the Delano Grape Boycott, 1965-1967.

Collection primarily of materials created by the National Farm Workers Association (later to become the United Farm Workers of America) during the initial years of the Delano Grape Boycott (1965-1970). Materials include leaflets, fliers, pledge cards. A handful of documents from other organizations can also be found in the collection. These organizations include: Non-Violent Action Committee (N-VAC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the San Jose Peace Center, and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

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Congress of Racial Equality

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Downtown CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), a chapter of the CORE national organization, was formed in March 1963 and remained active until the end 1966. Based on Manhattan's Lower East Side, it was one of nearly a dozen New York City local chapters organized in the early 1960s. Its founders included Rita and Michael Schwerner (the latter one of the group of three civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964), and its members included radical pacifist Igal Rodenko, anarchi...

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was created in 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Its purpose was to coordinate the student protest movement. SNCC led voter registration drives in Mississippi and other southern states, held civil rights demonstrations advocating social integration, and sponsored the Freedom Summer of 1964 in Mississippi....

National Farm Workers Association

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Non-Violent Action Committee.

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