Oscar Burdick collection of letters and miscellany relating to the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s and 1970s, 1966-1979.

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Oscar Burdick collection of letters and miscellany relating to the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s and 1970s, 1966-1979.

Contains letters to Harlan and Madelyn Stelmach, including 3 letters from Barry Messer concerning resistance to the draft in 1968, and educational ventures at Sunnyvale and Santa Cruz, Calif. Also contains a postcard from "Dick"; 2 letters from "George" concerning Christmas holiday and possible teaching positions at the University of California, Santa Cruz and San Diego; and a letter from Jim Colborn concerning proposed cultural center in Phoenix. Also contains miscellany relating to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1960s, including pamphlets and newspaper clippings relating to real estate interests of the Stelmach's, along with minutes, memos, budgets, and other ephemera related to Mission Rebels in Action, Inc., a San Francisco Mission District action group. Also includes publicity, fliers, clippings, and ephemera relating to the National Farm Workers Association, United Farm Workers of America, Farm Workers Press, the Independent Reform Association of San Francisco, and the Better Berkeley Committee (BBC), as well as material relating to People's Park and other Berkeley social protest events.

1 box (.2 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7439276

UC Berkeley Libraries

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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...

Messer, Barry.

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Burdick, Oscar.

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Mission Rebels in Action, Inc.

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Independent Reform Association of San Francisco.

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Better Berkeley Committee.

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Farm Workers Press.

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Stelmach, Harlan Douglas Anthony, 1945-

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Colborn, Jim.

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Stelmach, Madelyn.

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National Farm Workers Association

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