Records, 1964-1974.

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Records, 1964-1974.

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Correspondence, clippings, handouts, newsletters, photographs, and other material relating to the regional office's involvement with the strikes and grape boycott by the United Farm Workers and its predecessor, the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, in Texas and California.

4 boxes (l linear foot, 8 in.)

University of Texas at Arlington, Central Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6964099

University of Texas at Arlington, Central Library

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United farm workers

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Collected by Fr. Victor Salandini. From the description of Clippings from first convention, 1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019377 The National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) was founded in 1962 by César E. Chávez and other Mexican-American community activists in Delano, California. In 1966, the NFWA merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to form the United Farm Workers of America, the first successful and largest effort ever to organize ag...

AFL-CIO. Region no. 17.

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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...