Rodolfo F. Acuña Collection, 1816-2007.

Huerta, Dolores, 1930-

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Dolores Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta helped organize the Delano grape strike in 1965 in California and was the lead negotiator in the workers' contract that was created after the strike. Huerta has received numerous awards including the Eugene V....

Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993

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Cesar Chavez (b. March 31, 1927, Yuma, AZ – d. April 23, 1993, San Luis, AZ) was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW) in 1962. Originally a Mexican American farm worker, Chavez became the best known Latino American civil rights activist, and was strongly promoted by the American labor movement, which was eager to enroll Hispanic members. His public-relations approac...

Castro, Sal

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San Fernando Valley State College

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Acuña, Rodolfo F., 1932-

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Rodolfo F. Acuña was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He earned his B.A. and Master's degrees from Los Angeles State College and his Ph. D. from the University of Southern California. He is a political activist and a scholar committed to social justice. In 1969, he founded the first Chicano Studies Department at San Fernando Valley State College (now known as California State University, Northridge). In 1972, he published Occupied America: The Chicano's Struggle Toward Liberation, gr...

Los Angeles Unified School District. Board of Education.

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California State university, Northridge

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Galarza, Ernesto, 1905-1984

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Mexican American author, historian and lecturer. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He was particularly interested in Mexican American farm labor. From the description of Spiders in the house and workers in the field : Video interview transcript, 1971 Mar. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122500355 Ernesto Galarza, born 1905 in Jalcocotán, Nayarit, Mexico, was a labor organizer, labor historian, author, community organizer, bilingual educator, and university p...

Association of Mexican American Educators (Calif.)

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Seasonal Farm Laborers Program

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The Seasonal Farm Laborers Program also known as the Bracero Programs were the result of a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated on August 4, 1942, when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico. For these farmworkers, the agreement guaranteed decent living conditions and a minimum wage, as well as protections from forced military service, and guaranteed that a part of wages was to be put into a private savings account in Mexico; it also allowed the impo...

University of California, Santa Barbara

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The Physical Planning Committee was an advisory committee to the Office of Architects and Engineers, comprised of the Chancellor, the campus architect, and faculty members. The committee was responsible for discussion, approval, and planning of physical installations on campus. The duties of the Office of Architects and Engineers now fall under the Office of Campus Planning and Design, a division of Campus Design and Facilities. From the description of University of California, Santa...

Nava, Julian, 1927-

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Julian Nava was born in Los Angeles in 1927 to a Mexican immigrant family of eight children. After serving in the U.S. Naval Air Corps he went on to college, ultimately receiving a doctorate in history from Harvard University in 1955. Nava's career has combined military service, 12 years of elected public office in greater Los Angeles, diverse civic and business involvements as well as the promotion of foreign trade and representing our country as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico under Presidents Carte...