Photographs of the United Farm Workers march from San Francisco to Salinas, 1979, and accompanying documentation, 1979-1982.

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Photographs of the United Farm Workers march from San Francisco to Salinas, 1979, and accompanying documentation, 1979-1982.

Consists of 8 photographs, 1 contact sheet and 1 sheet of negatives taken of the United Farm Workers march from San Francisco to Salinas in 1979. Also includes: 1) Program in memory of Victoria Mercado, woman of courage (1951-1982), with photocopy of obituary from The People's World newspaper (photograph of Victoria Mercado on cover); 2) The Dispatcher newspaper of 7 Sept. 1979, with article about the march and reproduction of 3 photographs, p. 6; and 3) photocopy of article about the march from Supermarket News.

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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...

Meggitt, Richard.

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Mercado, Victoria, 1951-1982.

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