Central Coast Farm Labor Organizing Collection, c. 1960-2003.

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Central Coast Farm Labor Organizing Collection, c. 1960-2003.

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Contains materials relating to migrant farm workers on the Central Coast of California, including oral histories, reports, correspondence, strike ephemera, and secondary sources. Photographs taken by Manuel Echavarria documenting the United Farm Worker movement and used in the exhibit "¡Viva la Causa! A Decade of Farm Labor Organizing on the Central Coast" are included in the collection.

7 boxes (8.58 linear feet)

California Polytechnic State University, Robert E. Kennedy Library, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

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SNAC Resource ID: 7806302

California Polytechnic State University, Robert E. Kennedy Library, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

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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...

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...

National Farm Workers Association

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Echavarria, Manuel, 1940-

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Manuel Echavarria was born in 1940 in Lorraine, Texas. In 1969 Echavarria organized for the UFW and in 1999 Echavarria served as a board member of Federacion Unida En La Resermaze Servicious y Abogacia (FUERZA), advocating for better treatment of strawberry pickers. In the 1960s, over the span of ten years, Echavarria took photographs of the Santa Maria Valley farm workers laboring in the conditions that would drive them to join the United Farm Workers (UFW). Although he was an untr...

Valle, Victor M., 1950-

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Biography The California farm labor movement started in the early 1960s with the unionization of the migrant farm workers. In 1962 César Chávez and Dolores Huerta founded a union for the farm workers of the Central Valley of California, the National Farm Workers Association. This organization joined the Filipino American Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) in 1966 to create the United Farm Workers of America (UFW). The farm labor...