Records, 1968-1974, bulk 1968-1971.

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...

Texas Conference of Churches

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The Texas Conference of Churches is an ecumenical partnership of Anglican, Orthodox, Protestant, and Roman Catholic churches in Texas. The organization was created in Austin on February 24, 1969, following the dissolution of the Texas Council of Churches. As part of its charter the conference vowed opposition to discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, or sex. The conference is active in world relief efforts, state hospitals, ministries to migrant farm workers, aid to dependent ch...

Melendrez, Luis.

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Swallow, Shirley.

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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...

United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. Fort Worth Boycott Committee.

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A group of Tarrant County citizens organized in 1969 to support and aid the farm workers in California and Texas who were on strike by boycotting grapes and lettuce grown in these areas. The group called itself the Tarrant County Grape Boycott Committee. In late 1969 the name was changed to the Friends of the Farm Workers and about as year later to the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, Fort Worth Boycott Committee. From the description of Records, 1968-1974, bulk 1968-1971. (...

United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (Fort Worth, Tex.)

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