Guide to the Fred Ross papers M0812
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Notable or frequently mentioned individuals (A-Z):
- John Adler
- Saul Alinsky
- Dan Bacar
- Bill Beachy
- Jenny Brashear
- Dave Burciaga
- Cesar Chavez
- Andy Coe
- [Ellie] Cohen
- Greg Costello
- Joe Deety
- Chris Donoughue
- Joe Dukes
- Nancy Elliot
- Dianne Feinstein
- Mike Ganley
- Marshall Ganz
- Warren Hagstrom
- Bob Hardie
- Chirs Hartmire
- H. Hasawara
- Hayes
- Ralph Helstein
- Dolores Huerta
- Nick Jones
- Dave Koeler
- Ignacio ("Nacho") Lopez
- Mark Lyons
- Barbara Macry
- David Martinez
- Mary McCarthy
- Blain McGowan
- Eliseo Medina
- Dolores Mendoza
- Ray Mork
- Henry Nava
- Frank Ortiz
- Bob Parcel
- Lois Pryner
- Clint Reilly
- Tony Rios
- John Rodrigo
- Arturo Rodriguez
- Edward R. Roybal
- Hector Tarango
- Jo M. Tobin
- Ruth Tuck
- Barbara Wyler
Notable institutions in the collection:
- American Council on Race Relations (ACRR)
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
- Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC)
- California Federation for Civic Unity (CFCU)
- Central America Peace Education Training Project
- Community Action Training Center (CATC)
- Community Service Organization (CSO)
- Guadalupe Organization, Inc. (GO)
- Industrial Areas Foundation
- League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
- National Farm Worker Ministry
- National Farm Workers' Association (NFWA)
- National Farm Workers' Union (NFWU)
- Neighborhood Service Organization (NSO)
- Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign
- State Relief Administration (SRA)
- Survival Institute
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters
- United Farm Workers (UFW)
- War Relocation Authority (WRA)
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Cards
Datebook, 1972
Datebook, 1975-76
Datebook, 1978-79
Datebook, 1979
Finances
The Fred Ross, Sr., Collection, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
Harvard speech, 1977
Job, 1941
Maid, 1950's
Medical
Memorial service, 1992
Poetry
References
Voting Registration Report, Alameda
Voting Registration Report, San Francisco and Marin
Voting Registration Report, San Jose
Voting Registration Report, San Mateo
Work Diary, 1957
Misc.
Correspondence, 1940-49
Correspondence, 1950-59
Correspondence, 1960-69
Correspondence, 1970-79
Correspondence, 1980-89
Correspondence, undated
"Doctor of la Huelga," 1968
News clippings about Fred W. Ross
Scroll of Appreciation from CSO chapters, 1958
Stickers and Buttons
Travel Reports
Travel Reports and Expenses
"Donde Nacen las Culturas," memento from the Guadalupe Organization, Incorporated, 1970
Series B. Subject Files (7 linear feet)
Subseries: Alphabetical by Subject
"Aboriginal Cultures of the Western Hemisphere," Golden Gate International Exposition, 1940
Adult Education Association
AFL-CIO
Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC)
Saul Alinsky
Alzheimer's Disease
Amnesty International
Paul C. Ashton, "The New World Society, Jehovah's Witnesses," 1956
Asociación Nacional Mexicana Americana
California Attorney General, "Know your rights...when you buy on time" [n.d.]
California Center for Community Development
California Division of Fair Employment Practices, "Californians of Spanish Surname..." 1964
California Federation for Civic Unity (CFCU)
Cesar Chavez for Governor Committee
Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty
Citizens for Farm Labor
City College Cooperative Education Newsletter, 1972, 1974
Community Action Training Center (CATC)
Conference on Community Relations, 1947
Cooperation in Agriculture, 1936
Corporación Organizada Para Acción y Servidora (COPAS)
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO-- Alameda County
CSO-- Boyle Heights
CSO-- CIO, 1948-53
CSO-- Civil Rights Prior to 1950
CSO-- Correspondence
CSO-- Educationals, San Jose
CSO-- Executive Board, Minutes, 1955
CSO-- Executive Committee, Minutes, 1949-50
CSO-- Executive Commitee, Minutes, 1951
CSO-- General Membership, Minutes, 1952
CSO-- Hanford
CSO-- Labor Commissioner
CSO-- LA
CSO-- LA
CSO-- Lincoln Heights
CSO-- Lincoln Heights [?]
CSO-- Membership, 1961-62
CSO-- National Conference of Christians and Jews, Inc., 1949-1953
CSO-- Neighborhood Matters
CSO-- News Releases
CSO-- Notes [1958?]
CSO-- Press Clippings
CSO-- Robert Marshall Fund, 1953
CSO-- San Bernardino
CSO-- San Jose
CSO-- Soledad
CSO-- Stockton
CSO-- Third National Convention, 1956
Jeanne Davis, "Organizing the Urban Poor..." 1967
Delano
"A Diocese Decides to Act," 1965
Dan Dodson, "Power as a dimension of education," 1963
East Coast Migrant Health Project
Economic Notes, 1971
"Exitos de Martinez Gil," 1955
Farm Worker/Dept. of Employment Notices
Farm Worker Legislation, Spanish version
Friedland and Melkin, Migrant
Varden Fuller, "A New Era for Farm Labor," Industrial Relations, 1967
Ernesto Galarza, Strangers in Our Fields, 1956
Gallo Boycott Songs
Rodolfo Gonzalez, I am Joaquin, 1967
Richard Griswold del Castillo
Guadalupe, Arizona, 1964
Guadalupe Organization, Inc.
Guadalupe Organization, Inc., "Donde Nacen las Culturas" [memento]
Warren Hagstrom
Warren Hagstrom, "Action Organizations of Minority Group Communities," 1965
Warren Hagstrom, "CATC Notes," 1966
Warren Hagstrom, "The Moral Case Against Social Action," 1965
Warren Hagstrom, "The Organizer," 1965
Warren Hagstrom, Poverty and Adult Education, 1964
Warren Hagstrom, "Poverty and Adult Education," 1964
Warren Hagstrom, "Poverty Planning," 1965
Warren Hagstrom, "The Power of the Poor," 1964
Warren Hagstrom, "A Preliminary Report on Social Action Problems" [n.d.]
Warren Hagstrom, "Turn Back the Clock!" 1966
Warren Hagstrom, "The View From the Office in Back," 1966
Industrial Areas Foundation
Industrial Areas Foundation
"Interracial Prejudices in San Jose, California - 1950"
"Issei, Nisei, Kibei. Fortune Magazine..." 1944
Vera Johnson, "The Teamsters" (song)
Clark S. Knowlton, "Problems and Difficulties in Planning and Development in Areas with Large Minority Groups," 1964
"The Legend of Pancho Sanchez"
Jacques E. Levy, "Cesar Chavez. Autobiography of La Causa," 1974
McFarland Cancer Cluster
Mendota, California
Mike Miller Class Outline
Milligan
Minimum Wage
MIT paper (poem about Chavez)
National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor
National Farm Worker Ministry
National Farm Workers Service Center
Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign
Orange County Segregated School Case
ORGANIZE, San Francisco
Organizing materials (without organization names)
Tiberio Panzini, 1945
Pax Americas
Proposed Free Elections Law for Farm Workers [UFW?]
Proposition 14, The Farm Labor Initiative
Publications by AFL-CIO and other unions
Earl Raab and Hugh Folk, "The Pattern of Dependent Poverty in
California," 1963
Rancho Furukawa
Sandra Rifkin, "Moving Cities. A Proposal for Migrant Farm Labor"
Fred W. Ross Farmworkers Education Center
Edward R. Roybal, speech on Communist Control Ordinance, 1950
Rules of Order
San Diego Unity League
Songs
Spanish-language poetry and songs
Staff List
Stockton
Stockton [?]
Strike Song
Syracuse University, "Proposal for a Community Development...Project," 1964
Paul Taylor, Statement to Senate Committee, 1966
Teamsters
Teamsters
Tolstoy Foundation
UAW Song Book
UFW
UFW 1976, 1977
UFW-- Agreement with Teamsters, 1977
UFW-- A & P Boycott, Cleveland, 1973
UFW--Benefit Fiesta Program, 1971
UFW-- Boycott, 1977
UFW-- California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, 1975-76
UFW-- El Malcriadito, 1976
UFW-- El Malcriado, 1966
UFW-- News Conference, 1975
UFW-- The Robert F. Kennedy Farm Worker Medical Plan
UFW-- Spanish manuscript fragment
UFW-- Training, Los Angeles, October 1974
UFW Chronological History
UFW Education Center
UFW history, "Our Long March," mss. [n.d.]
UFW history, Spanish-language interview of Ross, 1974
UFW Service Center material
Urban Renewal [Lincoln Heights CSO?]
Manuel Veiga, Guadalupe, Arizona
War Relocation Authority, 1945-46
War Relocation Authority, Cleveland
War Relocation Authority employment papers
War Relocation Authority, San Francisco, 1945
James Watson and Julian Samora, "Subordinate Leadership in a Bicultural Community..." American Sociological Review, 1954
Woodville Farm Workers, 1941
Irvin and Marilyn Yalom, "Ernest Hemingway - A Psychiatric View," 1971
Youth Welfare Committee, 1952-53
Affidavit forms
AFL-CIO Convention, 1968
Saul Alinsky
Applications for work
Samuel Berger, Dollar Harvest (excerpt)
Buena Vista Labor Camp, 1960
California Department of Motor Vehicles
California Federation for Civic Unity, 1949-53
Chavez poster
Community Action Training Center (CATC)
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
CSO
Estimate of Mexican-American Voting Strength [n.d.]
Farm Labor File
Feinstein
Guadalupe, Arizona
Hearing, 1975
Dolores Huerta [?]
L.A. County Committee on Human Relations, 1948-1953
Mexican Council for Spanish-Speaking People, 1951-53
National Campaign for Agricultural Democracy
National Farm Workers Association
"Notes from the Midwest Boycott Conference," 1975
Organizing Materials (without organization names)
People's War Council Against Poverty
Phone List
Safeway
Songs
Statement by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta to a Senate Subcommittee, 1969
Marion Steeg, "Community Organizing Through Fund Raising," 1974
Stockton, CA [1958]
Student Organization
Students for Kennedy
Syracuse
Table Grapes
UFW
UFW
UFW
UFW
UFW
UFW
UFW
UFW-- Agreement with Paul Masson, 1976
UFW-- Collective Bargaining Agreement, InterHarvest, 1970
UFW-- El Malcriado, 1974
UFW-- El Mosquito Zumbador, 1966 and n.d.
UFW-- Leaflets
Misc.
Subseries: Press Clippings
Newspaper Clippings-- 1941
Newspaper Clippings-- 1948
Newspaper Clippings-- 1953
Newspaper Clippings-- 1954
Newspaper Clippings-- 1955
Newspaper Clippings-- 1958
Newspaper Clippings-- 1960
Newspaper Clippings-- 1962
Newspaper Clippings-- 1965
Newspaper Clippings-- 1966
Newspaper Clippings-- 1967
Newspaper Clippings-- 1968
Newspaper Clippings-- 1969
Newspaper Clippings-- 1970
Newspaper Clippings-- 1971
Newspaper Clippings-- 1972
Newspaper Clippings-- 1973
Newspaper Clippings-- 1974
Newspaper Clippings-- 1975
Newspaper Clippings-- 1976
Newspaper Clippings-- 1977
Newspaper Clippings-- undated
Newspaper Clippings-- Stockton
Harper's, June 1965
Individualist [n.d.]
The Nation, 1966
Playboy, March 1972
Ramparts, July 1966
Ramparts, August 1966
Ramparts, Aug.-Sept. 1973
Luis Valdez, "Tribute. Dolores Huerta," 1990
Articles about Ross
La Raza (Los Angeles), 1979
La Verdad (San Diego, CA), 1969
The New York Times Book Review, 1974
Newspaper Clippings, 1960's
Newspaper Clippings, 1970's
Newspaper Clippings-- Hanford, CA, 1955
The Sunday Times Magazine, 1970
Subseries: Training Materials
Boycott Campaigns-- Perelli-Minetti
Boycotters Handbook
Buidling the Winning Boycott
Community Organizing
Election Organizing Manual, 1975
"Farm Workers..."
Feinstein training session, re-election campaign for mayor of San Francisco 1983
Field Office House Meeting Outline (Florida)
The First House Meeting
John Gardner, An Organizer's Training Manual
"History of the Farm Worker Movement as told by Fred Ross, Sr....1974"
House meeting and personal visit outlines
House meeting notes
House meeting notes
House meeting originals
House meeting rap
House meeting (Spanish-language), Florida
House meeting training, 1988
Eliseo Medina, "Setting up a boycott"
Organizing and recruitment
Outline Action Program - Boycott, mid-1970's
Outline House Meeting - Farm Workers
Outline House Meeting/ NY and NJ, mid-1970's
"People Power Must Be Invisible..."
P.V. (English-language), Florida
Ranch Committees Organizing
"Recruitment: Fred Ross"
Revised Spanish-language packet
Ross Housemeeting Method
Ross on Camp Program
Survival Institute Training, Los Angeles, 1982
Toronto Boycott Staff, 1974
Training-- Alameda, 1976
Training--Feinstein Campaign, 1983
Training-- Guadalupe, Arizona, 1964
Training-- "Organizer Training. Post-Mortems of the First...1976"
Training-- "Summary House Meeting and P.V. Outline," August 1976
Training-- Texas, 1978
Training-- Misc.
Training Format
Training Lessons-- Breaking Into the Community
Training Lessons-- Calling, Chairs, Finding People
Training Lessons-- Door Openers
Training Lessons-- The Fallacy of Helping
Training Lessons-- Getting Yourself Organized
Training Lessons-- The Initial Phone Call
Training Lessons-- Learning People's Names
Training Lessons-- Learnings
Training Lessons-- Leaving Messages
Training Lessons-- Licking Fear
Training Lessons-- Making a Schedule
Training Lessons-- Mass Meeting
Training Lessons-- Peer Pressure
Training Lessons-- Philosophy of Blaming Others
Training Lessons-- The Phone Call
Training Lessons-- The Phone Call
Training Lessons-- P.V.'s
Training Lessons-- Religious Leaders
Training Lessons-- Reminder Call
Training Lessons-- The Reminder Call
Training Lessons-- Students' Notes/ Manual/ Gardner
Training Lessons-- "They Are Not Prepared - You Are"
Training Lessons-- The "Whats" and the "Hows"
Training Lessons-- Who Are They - The Ones You Organize
Training Materials
Training Materials (English-language)
Training Materials (English-language)
Training Materials (Spanish-language)
Training Materials (Spanish-language)
Training Materials-- Misc.
Training Notes, Feb. 1977
Larry Tramutt, Farm Workers
UFW-- Brooklyn Training, 1977
Workshop with Fred Ross, La Paz, 1975
Boycott Campaigns-- DiGiorgio
Boycott Campaigns-- Gallo
Building the Winning Boycott
Fort Worth Training Session [n.d.]
Giumarra
House Meeting Outlines
LA Training, 1974
Organizing-- Ranch Committees
Training for Survival
Training Lessons-- Omitting the 1 Step
Training Lessons-- Perception/ Blaming Others
Series C. Manuscripts (3 linear feet)
"Autobiographical." "Workbook of a Wayfaring Organizer"
Axioms
Axioms
"Bell Town Unity League"
"Beginnings, L.A. CSO"
"Bloody Xmas"
"Bob Hardie"
Book Drafts
Book Drafts, Beginning
Book Outline (Bell Town and Casa Blanca)
Book Proposal, 1968
Book/ Santa Ana
"Boyle Hts. - L.A. CSO," "Drop Back"
Brooklyn, 1977
"Casa Blanca"
"Cesar Resigns from CSO"
"Cesar Tries His Wings." Part II of the Chronicle of Cesar Chavez
"Cesar Tries Wings"
"Community Organization in Mexican American Colonies...1946-47"
Conquering Goliath
Conquering Goliath, Foreword
"Conversion - Challenge"
"CSO-- First Membership Meeting"
"Dangling Loose Ends"
Delano
Dolores Huerta. Woman in Motion
"Draft-- LA CSO Henry Nava House Meeting"
Draft Ross wrote for Carey McWilliams
"The First House Meeting"
"Fred Ross, David and Goliath," "The Helstein Plan"
"Get Out If You Can"
"Get Out If You Can"
Get Out If You Can (1953)
"Give It A Go"
"Guadalupe"
"LA River"
"The Last Round/ Tony Rios/ Bloody Xmas"
"Lincoln Heights"
Manuscript about Chavez
Manuscript about LULAC
Manuscript about LULAC
"Mario Andretti"
"Mexican Americans on the March"
"The Next Night"
"The Old Man and the Key"
"Phoney Forbearance"
"Ross-- Feeding My Head"
"Ross-- How started working with Farm Workers"
"Ross-- Influences"
"Ross-- Worrying and Reflecting"
"Rudy Aroused"
"Ruth Tuck"
"The Saga of Sal Si Puedes"
"The Saga of Sal Si Puedes"
"San Bernardino. Ruth and Ignacio"
"SB Book. Cesar Chavez-Fred Ross collaboration"
"Selling Them On You"
"SRA"
"State Relief Administration"
"There is a time for sound"
"Trapp/ Manuel Santa Ana/ Book?"
"Woman in Motion"
"Woman in Motion"
"Woman in Motion"
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Untitled manuscript
Untitled manuscript
Untitled manuscript, part 1 of 7
Untitled manuscript, part 2 of 7
Untitled manuscript, part 3 of 7
Untitled manuscript, part 4 of 7
Untitled manuscript, part 5 of 7
Untitled manuscript, part 6 of 7
Untitled manuscript, part 7 of 7
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Untitled manuscript
Untitled manuscript
Misc. manuscript pages
Misc. manuscript pages
Misc. manuscript pages
Misc. manuscript pages
Misc. manuscript pages
Misc. manuscript pages
Misc. manuscript pages
Misc. manuscript pages
Misc. manuscript pages
Misc. manuscript pages
Misc. manuscript pages
Misc. manuscript pages
"CC and I in Visalia"
"Saul/ 1st Meeting"
Untitled manuscript
Untitled manuscript
Series D. Notes (2.5 linear feet)
Notecards
Notecards
Notes
Notes
Notes
Notes
Notes
Notes [1974?]
Notes
Notes
Notes
Notes
Notes
Notes
Notes
Notes
Notes
Notes
Notes
Notes
Notes
Notes
Notes
Notebook, 1955
Notebooks, 1956
Notebooks, 1956
Notebook, 1957
Notebooks, 1957
Notebooks, 1957
Notebook, 1958
Notebooks, 1959
Notebooks [CSO?]
Notebook, n.d.
Notebook, n.d.
Notebook, n.d.
Notebooks, n.d.
Notebook, n.d.
Workbooks
Workbooks
Photos
Photos
Photos
Photos-- California/ New England
Photos-- Cesar Chavez, 1975
Photos-- UFW, early and mid-1970's
Series F. Audio & Transcripts (444 tapes)
Subseries: Transcripts
Central America Peace Education Training Project, 1984
Central America Peace Education Training Project-- Table of Contents for Tapes
Central America Peace Training Project, 1984
Central America Peace Training
Notes-- Ohio Tape [n.d.]
Notes-- Tape on Boston
Notes-- Tape on Boston
Notes-- Tape on Brooklyn
Notes-- Tape on Brooklyn, 1977
Notes-- Tape on Domestic Workers [n.d.]
Notes-- Tape on Oakland, 1980
Notes-- Tape on Ohio Training, 1974
Notes on Tapes
Notes on Tapes
Transcript-- Allliance for Survival, L.A. [1983?]
Transcript-- AS/ Peace Groups
Transcript-- Boycott Training, L.A., July 1974
Transcript-- Brooklyn [n.d.]
Transcript-- Brooklyn [n.d.]
Transcript-- Feinstein recall
Transcript-- Fred Ross, May 8
Transcript-- Fred Ross and Cesar Chavez, May 7, 1965
Transcript-- Fred Ross and Cesar Chavez, Reel 2
Transcript-- Fred Ross and Cesar Chavez, Reel 3
Transcript-- NSO Meeting, Florida [n.d.]
Transcript-- ST, FR, CC
Transcript-- Training, 1975
Transcript-- Training, 1975
Transcript-- Training, Florida UFW, 1974-75
Transcript-- Training, Oakland, 1978
Transcript Fragment (pp. 11-14)
Transcript Fragment (pp. 31-34)
Transcript Fragment (pp. 53-59)
Subseries: Reel to reel tapes
"Cesar - Day after Jones fires [illeg.]"
"Side one - Argument with WPWA-CSO- how Cesar felt. Side 2 - Early contact with R[illegible] and C[illeg.] & to parts of Farm
"Track 2- Cesar - Day after March and Meeting with Hayes. How got [illeg.] work & union. Track 1- Mtg. with Carr [?] - Wages discussed. Cesar's fear abt going to Oxnard. Developments meeting with Hayes wkrs had jobs but only wk'd part of time - halfdays economics of hiring locals vs braceros - Jones [illeg.] with other [illeg.] growers. How Cesar built up [illeg.] against Hayes F.P. [illeg.]. Cesar's fear re going to Oxnard
"Fights for jobs after the carrots [illeg.] with the ladies, stock, irrigation, [illeg.] jobs that don't take [illeg.] people. [Illeg.] "spys" the "sliders" Getting out word the [?] next week were going to [illeg.] this ass or that one - Plans to transfer Emp Pay over to Union - acutal transfer - Union takes over fight vs. [illeg.] Japanese wkrs - Racket tries to get wks to invade private property."
"CSES...Taking wkrs around to Associations....Digression - urges Union to take over Emp Assn....Side 2 - Opposition to Assn's plan to take wkrs to F.P-Ass etc...Cesar takes wks - Mtg with Hayes - Plan for getting complaints..."
"Side 2. Descript of bars, Descript of Garcias place, [illeg.] Story of old man Lopez from Madera...Side one. Argument with Union group re: [illeg.] of jobs vs wages....Descrip of Rachel, Eddie, workers...."
"Dolores"
UFW radio spots
Subseries: Audiocassettes
Audiocassettes, numbered 1-72 by Ross
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Phone Discussion.
Phoning. Mona - Friendship [?]/ 198 - Manipulating. Releasing - resisters. Pressure. Preparing for phoning - wrkrs rap
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Role playing phoning.
Role playing phoning. Logistics
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Odds & ends - Prep & protocol of PV. Temptations. Leaving messages. CC - Jan P & Maldonado. Reminder calls - Nag - Prep & Production of PV. Mary M C
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The "never home people." Phone 2 friends. Call at 7 AM-Midnight. Keep eyes open. The PV. Grove WK's house - Casa Blanca. Painting on Wall.
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Prep of PV rap
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Prep of PV
Prep of PV
Prep of PV rap
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John Adler.
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8/6/84
8/6/84
8/6/84
8/6/84
Jaime, Renata, Dan. John Adler HM Rap - incomplete
8/7/84. Liza, Jaime, Renata, Dan - Post Mortem. 8/7 and 8/8. PV's. Rodrigo
8/7-8/8/84. Conclusion of John. Kent. PM or PV. Joseph W [?]. John Rodrigo.
Rodrigo PM on PV.
8/8/84
8/8/84. Cathy and Ned
8/8/84, 8/9/84
8/9/84. Pressure. Pressure Brouhaha. Lorena quiet HM Post Mortem
8/9/84
8/9/84. Lorena, Cathy, Jenefer [?], Dan, Jane
8/9, 8/10
8/9-8/10. John, Kent, Jennifer. Jane
8/10/84
8/10/84. Jennifer, Jan. 8/10-8/11. John, Jennifer
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Jennifer, Kent. Discussion and John
8/11/84
PM 8/12
8/12
PM 8/12
PM Sunday 8/12
PM 8/12/ 8/14 Vibes
Audiocassettes, numbered 73-101 by Ross (missing #98)
8/14 Vibes
8/14. Kent PM
8/14
8/14
8/14/84, begin 8/15
8/15/84
8/15/84
8/15/84
8/15/84, begin 8/16
8/15/84. Begin 8/16/84 John and Ned. Julie and John
8/16/84
8/16/84. Julie and Jane. Jane, Jennifer, Kent
8/16/84, begin 8/17
8/16/84. 8/17 begin. Kent and Ross. Kent, Jane, Jennifer
8/17/84
8/17/84. Jennifer and John.
8/17/84
8/19. Jennifer, Jane, John
8/19
8/19
8/19/84
Ellie - Fred. 8/21/84
Paul - Fred. 8/21/84, 8/22/84
Paul - Fred. 8/22/84, 8/24/84
Paul - Fred. 8/24/84
Ellie - Fred. 8/22/84
Fred. 8/30/84
8/30/84
Fred - Paul - Ellie wrap-up 8/30/84
Wyler-Cohen interviews, August-September 1985 [originally numbered 1-20, missing cassette originally numbered 13]
8/23/85. First meeting w/ Fred Ross at Neidorf's. Ellie, Barbara, Pam, David, Fred Ross, Sr., Fred Ross, Jr., Anna Marie N.
8/23/85. Ellie and Barbara
8/24. Band on stage. Testimonial.
Band, Cesar, Tony Rios, Roybal, Luis, Fred Ross, Sr., Fred Ross, Jr.
8-24-85. Fred
8/25. Fred Ross, Jr., John Brown
8/25/85. John Brown. 8/26/85. Fred Ross, Tony Rios
8/26/85. Fred Ross
8/26/85 and 8/27/85. Fred Ross
8/27/85
8/28/85. F.R. tales on organizing House Mtg.
8/28/85. Fred at Motel 6
8/28/85. Delano - DiGiorgio. Driving North on Hwy 99
8/28/85. Fred b/f Modesto.
8/29/85. Kay. Fred
8/29/85. Fred. Interview - Marin County
8/29/85. Fred Interview in Marin City
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Test tape
Audiocassettes, 1972-75
Nov. 9, 1972. With God ain't it a caution. Phoning - Personal visit pitch. Jo M. Tobin. Fred Ross. Prep. for Hs. Mtg. - Reminding. Phoning
10/73. Beginning of History to Giumarra. Ross Hs Mtg Matilda's
LA, 4/74. Fred Ross. Hist. of Cesar UFW up to loss of contract in 1973
April 2, 1974. Fred Ross. House Meeting. Origin of house meeting. Personal visist. LA Boycott in 1966-67
LA, April 2, 1974. The H.M. Church off USC campus
NY, 5/23/74. More sample phone calls. Ross Tr. session.
[NY, 5/23/74?]. Reports from role playing, 1-1 meeting. Fred Ross, 1974
LA, 7/3/74
LA 7/4/74
New York, 9/25/74. Phone calls
9/27/74. Fred Ross. Area-wide mtg., Dolores at the end. Chris Hartmire
10/9/74 Los Angeles. Ross. Intro to H. Mtg. Origin of it. Discussion of phoning and winning [?] 1st contact
Dayton, 10/28/74. Fred Ross session. St. Leonard's Seminary. Human nature. My own background. SRA-FAS-WPA-ACRR. Early org. disasters in S.B.-B.T. Mass mtgs. - org of orgs/ - one-to-one. Advantages of Hs Mtg. Spread truth not claims. Peer pressure. Overcoming alibis for not holding Hs. Mtgs.
Dayton, 10/28/74. F.R. session. Human behavior. Finding 1st person. Peer pressure, overcoming alibis. Phone call.
[Dayton, October 1974?] Preparing for simulated phone call. Phone phobia
[Dayton, October 1974?] More on phoning. Hs. Mtg. How to hit - animo. High points to hit at P. visit. Nancy and Joe Toshi [?]story
[Dayton, October 1974?]. Transcribed. Explanation of P.V. Ross. David Martinez et al.- Columbus
[Dayton, October 1974?]. Critique of Martinez PV. PV organizers from Columubus and critique. McGowan's P.V. Luisa [illeg.] the tractor story. Jenny Brashear's sacrifice
[Dayton, October 1974?]. P.V. Eliseo's report on sim'd P.V. Eliseo's explanation of NLRA question. H Mtg.
[Dayton, October 1974?] Reports from PV sim'd mtgs. Prep for Hs Mtgs. Waves of Immigrants. Arabs. Beginning of hs Mtg. Outline
Dayton [October 1974?]. From = power situation [illeg.] to Cesar following outline of Hs Meeting. Bloody Xmas. I meet Cesar to org. of NFWA
[Dayton, October 1974?] '65 Strike to Penelli-Minetti. Gallo to Lettuce Boycott. Hs Mtg Outline
[Dayton, October 1974?] Victory in Grapes, affect [sic] on wkrs. Org. of Delano [illeg.] 1971. Dolores Mendoza. Florida, Bloody Summer '73
[Dayton, October 1974?]. Hs Mtg conclusion. Chris, Sam [illeg.]
11/2/74 [Dayton?]. Hs. Mtgs. Baca Hernandez, [illeg.] reports on sim Hs Mtgs.
11/2/74 [Dayton?]. Forms, record keeping, [illeg.] your day. Daily Mtgs. Support groups. Monitoring phoning, PV, H Mtgs, Parrish pattern of org.
11/2/74 [Dayton?]. Area-wide Mtg.
11/2/74 [Dayton?]. Area-wide org.
11/2/74 [Dayton?]. AW Mtg and after. Chirs Hartmire
11/2/74 [Dayton?]. Chirs Hartmire. CH and FR, Discipline
11/2/74 [Dayton?]. Discipline
11/2/74 [Dayton?]. End of session
NY, 1974. Fred Ross. P.V.'s, phoning. UFW
1/75. Discussion on Hs Mtg. Steffan. Dolores and Frank Ortiz
NY, Jan. 1975. Washington Square Mtg.
1/6/75. Training Session. History of HM
1/7/75. Phoning Critique. Personal Visit
1/7/75. Personal Visit. Role playing
1/7/75. Training session. Outline of House Mtg. Phoning
3/10/75. Training session. Boycott. CC and the strike, Florida. Hist of Farm Labor
3/10/75. Training session. History - Gallo strike. 1967 - Guimarra - Boycott - Victory - Lettuce strike 1970 - Fast - Salinas Violence - effect on wkrs of contract
3/10/75. Training session. Mark Lyons
3/10/75. Training Session. Black Problem - Florida organizing
3/11/75, Florida. Training session. The first contact. Sim'd phone calls
3/11/75, Florida. Sim'd PV's. Dianna - Mark
3/11/75, Florida. PV critique. HM. Ross. Nancy. Slavery story
3/11/75, 3/12/75, Florida. Training session. Salinas strike. Practice Hm's
3/11/75, Florida. Ross, sim'd PV
3/11/75, Florida. Job of coordinator. How I met Dolores
3/12/75. Ross, prep for A.W.O. Blame others
3/11/75. DiGiorgio
3/13/75. AW Org.
3/13/75. Discipline - Disrupters
3/13/75. Training session. Recruiting nuns and students
3/13/75. AW Org.
April 1975, La Paz. Phoning. Poor people's union
7/1/75. Training session. Control growers
7/22/75. La Paz Elect. org.
7/22/75. La Paz Elect. Org. Session
7/22/75. La Paz
7/22/75. La Paz Elect. Org.
7/23/75. La Paz Elect. Org.
7/23/75. La Paz Elect. Org.
7/24/75. La Paz Election Organizer Training Session
7/28/75. La Paz Election Organizer Training Session
7/28/75. La Paz Election Organizer Training Session. The Personal Visit
7/28/75, 7/29/85. La Paz Election Organizer Training Session
7/29/75. La Paz Election Organizer Training Session
7/29/75. La Paz Election Organizer Training Session
7/30/75. La Paz Election Organizer Training Session. House meetings
7/30/75. La Paz Election Organizer Training Session. House meetings
Oct. 1975. Delano
1975. Stories Santa Ana 1986, LA 1934. Cesat with F. Wks H.M. Boston session
1975, La Paz. Training session. Marshall's group. Elections
1975, La Paz. Elections. Marshal's [sic] crew. Phone call
1975, La Paz. Training. Marshal's [sic] group
Audiocassettes, 1976-78
12/6/76. Oakland Tr. Sess. Boycott Prog. for 1977. Discussion on recruiting
12/6/76. Oakland training. Screening applicants. AWO discussion. The "Crunch." Money. Action Programs. Sadie Story. J.B. Story - I can't leave until I get 2 HM's. Blazing eyes.
Dec. 1976. Alameda Boycott training. Phoning (Ross). San Francisco and Los Angeles. Streisand story.
12/1976. Oakland Training Session. Value of College. P.V.'s. Recruitment. Nancy Elliot and "guilty-here" story.
12/1976. Oakland Tr. Sess. PM. P.V.'s. N. Elliot's cancellation [?] story.
12/6/76, Oakland. Mini training session on recruiting. Background, 1965-1976
[1976?]. Historia del movimiento campero en Santa Maria, 1968-1976. Canciones de la huelga. Poemas
1/5/77. 1st L.A. Session. The way it was to the Orange Strike in 1936. LA Boycott Training 1/5/77. Power of Growers to unify Braceros (Oxnard story with Cesar)
Jan. 1977. LA Boycott Training 3. Di Giorgio story. March to Sacramento
1/77, LA. Soft sell approach. Boycott training
[Jan. 1977?, LA?] L.A. Training. Discipline. Nick Jones stuff
1/31/77, Alameda County. Core group session. Lois.
2/2/77, San Jose. Post Mortem on Core Grp Mtg. [Illeg.] Welch. Dan Bacar.
2/16 [1977?], New York. 1st training session. Overview. Brooklyn. Mona and Gary. Anna and LA office 1974
2/16/77. NY Training Session. Luke gives P.V.
2/16/77. NY Training Session. Begin review of H. Mtg. Outline. Ross gives P.V.
2/16/77. NY Training Session. Pt. I of HM Outline. Story of Amelia Diaz firing - PV with me r CC - Action and reaction. Blain McGowan - PV with parents HM in front of Fazzios
2/16/77. NY Training Session. Macho Story. Period bet. PV and HM2
2/18 [1977?]. Brookly Training - Part II - H. Mtg Outline. [Salinas]. Luke gives stories of CC part of outline
2/18/77. NY Training Session. Pt II Outline. Joe Dukes
2/18 [1977?]. Brooklyn. Best people on Pt. II of HM Outline.
2/19/77. NY Training Session. Arizona 1972 - Dave. Part III of HM
2/19/77. NY Training Session. Part III and IV of HM. Ross give Pt 3 and 4 - good. Salinas, CMLI
2/20 [1977?], New York. Crunch. Gallo snapshot. Zaninovitch [?]
[Feb. 1977 ?, New York?]. Core group role play, Kim and Claire. Carrol
[Feb. 1977 ?, New York?]. H. Mtg. Roll [sic] play, Mike, Barb, Debbie. Carrol, Sue, Claire, Grady, Luc.- No statistics, stories!
2/19/77. NY Training Session. Salinas Strike. Jenny Brashears [?]
4/18/77. Chicago Session
4/18/77. Chicago Session
5/30/77. Fred Ross, radio show
6/12/77. PV's for NSO's Boston training - Ross. Luke arrives
5/31/77. CORE role play. Greg Costello [?]
1977. Boston Training Session. Role Playing H.M. Jim
1977. Boston Training Session. End of Sadie story
[1977?]. Cesar on teaching wkrs to learn and help other wkrs. Wkms. ccamp.
1/17/78, La Paz
1/17/78, La Paz
1/17/78, La Paz
1/17/78, La Paz
2/20/78, Oakland. Training session. History. Gary - sim HM
2/20/78, Oakland. Training session. Map of community - finding the 1st contact - to my [illeg.] org.: history Redlands
2/20/78. Training session. Vitality - Mary McCarthy, Mona Chacon [?], Gary Clemms [?] - Vitality - animo - phoning. P.V.
2/20/78, Berkeley. Losers - what if - Jim (Boston) - Pete - LA - Outline for H.M. Training session. "Rapport" - Joe Deety, Mita, Bob Parcel/ HM's
Feb. 20, 1978, Alameda. Training session. History - starting with Gallo "Jews" [?] story
Feb. 20, 1978. Training session. [Illeg.] Brooks - tips on HM's. G. Guthner [?] gives HM with stories. Pt 1 of outline
2/20/78. Oakland. Training session. Very good. After PV - Phoning - Visits - Mary MC's vitists
2/21/78, Oakland. Sim H/M. Dan B.
2/22/78. Oakland Training Session. Mary Mc - NSO. Gary sim'd HM. Jane - sim'd HM
[Feb. 1978?, Oakland?]. Gallo elections, 1975 - seventy guards and cameras - Dan Bacar. Training session. HM III - Ross - history starting with Cesar's birth in Yuma
2/22/78, Alameda. Lois sim'd H.M. Phoning - Ross. Lois crunches I correct. Mark and Ross - "Nothing to lose" - Chambers advice - [illeg.] talk to men and women together
[Feb. 1978?, Oakland?]. Training session. Lois - HM simulated. Jane - sim'd HM
H.M. Gary starting with CC in Delano movie. C. Chavez HM at Dave Burciagas as told by Ross
2/21/78 [Oakland?]. CC begins org. of union as told by Jane. HM - Jane - signing of contracts July 1970
[Feb. 1978? Oakland?]. HM Part III
2/22/78 [Oakland?]. Training session. Part IV, Crunch. Ross crunches Lois, Mary, Mark, etc. Story on Maggio carrots
2/22/78. Oakland Training Session. CC at Dave B's house with FWkrs
2/28/78. Oakland Training Session. Gary sim HM. 2/22/78. Lois - sim H/M
2/24/78. Oak Tr. Session. Dan Bakar [Bacar?]. 1/2 tape on "readiness of people" to take on issues. Vivian and Gib [?]
2/27/78. Oak Tr. - Phoning. "Mert" [?] - Organize [illeg.] H. Mtg. Lois Pryner.
2/27/78. Oak Tr. Session. CC in Oak 1953. Prep for PV. Persistence. CC - Decoto, Bakersfield, Oxnard, Delano. Ross - persistence. [Illeg.] LA Voter Reg. Sac - Wetback [Ross recording in car 1/23/78 en route to C. [illeg.] from LA]
4/24/78. Fred W. Ross. History - Negotiation class. La Paz. History SRA - carrots - Mulligan - Hardie - Inspiration
4/24/78. Fred W. Ross - Hardie training. History - [illeg.] and WRA. [Illeg.] and Evacuation. History end of J.A.'s - Beg. of San Bernardino
4/24/78. Fred W. Ross. History San Bern. Bell Town, Reds, C.B.-Santa Ana. El M[illeg.] S. L. - Frances and Julie LA
4/25/78. Fred W. Ross. history. Julie - [illeg.] - Roybal - Alinsky - CPO - CSO. Rios, Nava [?], Lito, Maria, Origin of H.M. History - Birth and development of CSO [illeg.] Voter Reg - Elect of Roybal - Bloody Xmas
4/25/78. Fred W. Ross. History - Bloody Xmas - Discussion re Roybal v. Ross relations. History - HM with Cesar 6/52. La Paz - CC makes a report.
4/25/78. La Paz classes. Description of Maravilla to [illeg.]. Hs Mtg with Cesar - my "pitch"
4/25/78. La Paz classes. From end of HM with Cesar. 4/26/78 La Paz classes. Cesar goes to Decoto [illeg.]
4/26/78. Fred W. Ross. San Jose. History - San Antonio courts [?] citizenship program - Decoto. Oakland and Salinas. CC in Bakersfield. Ross in San Bern[illeg.] - Brawley. Gary F.
4/26/78. Fred W. Ross. History - Stockton and Dolores, beginning of Oxnard - Hanford - Brawley. End of Oxnard. CC resigns to start UFW
[April 1978?]. Cesar in Decoto etc. La Paz - Training [?] - [illeg.] students
Audiocassettes, 1978-1984
4/26 [1978?]. La Paz class. Cesar goes to Oxnard. 4/27 - La Paz class. Cesar's Ordeal in Delano - early org'g- hunger
4/27 [1978?]. La Paz classes. Cesar - [illeg.] - fears - new approaches in early org'g of NFWA. Busses [sic] loaded with women scabs roar into DiGiorgio
4/27/78. Fed W. Ross. History - Guadalupe GO - Cesar begins UFW. DiGiorgio election, El Mosquito etc.
4/27/78. La Paz classes. DiGiorgio election - Guimarra strike. Amelia Huerta [?] at DiGiorgio to Salina strike.
4/27/78. Fred W. Ross. History - 1973 - 600 Wkrs go east to picket. 4/28/78
4/28/78. Fred W. Ross. Alinsky before Senat [sic] Fact Finding Com Ovelia [?] Diaz # 30 - CC is on this tape
4/28/78. La Paz classes. End of Salinas strike - "action and reaction" [illeg.] L.A.-C.S.O.
4/24/78. La Paz Session with class on Negotiation. I meet Nacho Lopez to Casa Blanca. 10% [illeg.] Lulac - El Mo[illeg.]. San Diego V. Reg. Drive
[April 1978?]. To [illeg.] Mig. Lab. Camp (in car on way to La Paz. Beginning to marriage to grower [?]. In car on way to La Paz Tr. session with Neg's class
11/22/78. NIA Sessions. Domestic Wkr
11/24/78. The rap for phone call
[November 1978?]. The PV
[November 1978?]. PV
1/19/79, Calexico. Fred Ross. 11/20/79 [illeg.], Dirty Tricks, Bloody Summer. [On cassette liner: 11/18/79: History.]
1/18/79 Calexico. Fred Ross. History of the Farm Workers Movement
1/19/79. Fred Ross
1/19/79, Calexico. Fred Ross. History of the Farm Workers Movement
1/27 [1979], Berkeley. Coords' Mtg. 1/28/79, San Jose staff Mtg.
9/25/79. Paul and Mike. Salary [?] with Alinsky. Structure- Crazies [?] - Advisory [?] officers, issue [illeg.] Bell Town. Single issue org.
9/24[29?]/79. Paul and Mike. Very good.
1/17/80. Fred and Paul. How I org'd CSO - Membs must pay for org. Role of Org in CSO
1/24/80. Fred and Paul. CSO org'g mtg.
1/31/80. Fred Ross and Paul
1/31/80. Fred and Paul. Voting Power - San Diego
2/7/80 Paul and Fred. Hs Mtgs
2/7/80. Paul and Fred. Paul and Voting Power Drive
4/16/80. Fred Ross on Hs Mtgs, organizing
4/16/80, 4/17/80. Fred Ross on organizing
May 22-23, 1980. Training. Post Morteming in prep for HM
5/23/80. Oak Training
June, July, Aug. 1980. Oakland Training
June-July 1980. Oakland Boycott training session - Kevin
[summer?] 1980. Oakland. JB - P.V.
7/80. Oxnard. Training - Artie [?] Reed [?] and Paul David
8/1/80. HM with Limoniera [?] Wkrs in vidal's back yard
8/1/80. H Metting with Limoniera [?] Wkrs in Vidal back yard
9/3/80. Gen. Mtg. Sta Paula, Arturo Rodriguez leading
8/27/80. Mtg. of Comite de Cabeza in Sta Paula - Arturo Rodriguez leading
[August 1980?]. Mtg. with "Comite de Cabeza" in Sta Paula - Arturo Rodriguez leading
[1980?]. Unemployment
10/26/80. Unemp. beginning and beginning of training session
3/22/82. Unidentified woman interviewing Fred Ross. Poor sound
March 22, 1982. Fred Ross.
7/19/82. Survival Institute
7/19/82. Survival Institute
7/19/82. Survival Institute
2/10/83. Feinstein
2/10/83. Feinstein. Preparing the pitch, Gibs House Meeting
2/10/83. Feinstein.
2/19/83. Fred and pt time [illeg.]. Gib explains. Mathew HM, Gib gives HM
6/16 [1983?]. Tr. Session - Feinstein Reelection
6/16 [1983?]. [Tr. Session - Feinstein Reelection?]
[6/16/83. Tr. Session - Feinstein Reelection?]
5/2/84, Carmel. Fred Ross org.
5/2/84. Fred Ross org.
5/3/84. Carmel session
5/4/84, Carmel. Fred Ross Hs Mtg. proper. Ellis rap
[May 1984?], Carmel. Discussion of Ellis rapp [sic]. Meeting after Mtg. - to put pressure on and make friends
[May 1984, Carmel?]. Post Mortem. Jackie goes for $! Katie and taking phone off hook. Vibes - Post Mortem. Jackie gets "brusque" and feels OK about it!
May 16 [1984?], Carmel. Post Mortem
May 16 [1984?], Carmel. Post Mortem
[May 1984, Carmel?]. Vibes and Post Mortem
Audiocassettes, 1985-1987, undated
4/27/85. Fred Sr. Tape #1. Mike Ganley. Japanese Americans
4/27/85. Fred Ross Sr. Tape #2. Mike Ganley. Alinsky, Citrus Belt. Origin of CSO
4/27-4/28 1985. Fred Ross Sr. Tape # 3. Ross reads "What happened to Pete." Bloody Xmas.
4/30-5/1 '85. Fred Ross Sr. Tape # 6
5/1/85. Fred Ross Sr. Tape #7
5/1-5/2/85. Fred Ross Sr. Tape #8
5/2/85. Fred Ross Sr. Tape #9
7/4/87. Fred Ross. Please return to Bill Beachy
7/4/87. Fred Ross. Please return to Bill Beachy
Undated tapes by probable year
[1975?]. La Paz Elect. Org Cass #11
[1975?]. La Paz 2/75 (?) Waves of Immigrants
[1975?]. 2nd session at La Paz
[1977?]. Boston. Greg Costello. Mary Ann and friend from Florida. Mike Guanel [?] - chart of community.
[1977?]. Boston - HM practice. Max - practices. [Illeg.] and Chris practice
[1977?]. PV Chris C. Mark - Hs. Mtg. Alice
[1977?]. Mark
[1977?]. Max HM - last section
[1977?]. Fred Ross
[1978?]. Arvin Mig. Camp - Woodie [sic] Guthrie. War - Braceros [illeg.] WRA - ACRR - San Bernardino, Ruth [illeg.]
[1978?]. Cesar - Oxnard - carrot topping episode
[1980?]. 2/2. Voter Reg. Org'g Drive.
[1985?]. Ellie
[1985?]. Ellie
[1985?]. Ellie
[1985?]. Ellie
[1985?]. [Ellie?]
[1985?]. Post Mortem. The blow up over pressure at end of 1st 2 weeks
[1985?]. Art Auction and Fund Raising
[1985?]. The Blow up on end of "Pressure," Post Mortem Carmel
[1985?]. May 18 - Post Mortem Carmel
[1985?]. May 18 - Post Mortem Carmel
[1985?]. May 22 - Carmel Freeze Vibe Session. Post Mortem
[1985?]. June 1 - Carmel Post Mortem. May 31
Audiocassettes, undated 1
Historia de Santa Maria. Canciones y poemas. Una hora, historia [illeg.]
CORE Post Mortem. Boston - Guy, Mark, Alice, etc.
P.V. Prep. for PV - Spouse. Out-line - sm. talk - church? Job? making friends - synopsis to give to host. We map the battle of the phone. Ross gives P.V. good - and host's phone call
Phoning - Alameda. Eden - Org with Lois.
Phoning and P.V. 1st Personal Visit. HM Outline - CC at Burciaga's house
House Mtg - charismatic leading. Nancy - Visalia - Sadie. Wash DC. Casa Blanca - learning to hold Hs Mtgs
Rick. Wash SC - PV and Hs Mtg
CSO - 1952 - Cesar and beginning NFWA org. CSO '52 to Org. NFWA. New York - Bloody Xmas. History "Okis" to Cesar.
Following Hs Mtg outline to victory in grapes. Following Hs Mtg Outline - Lettuce Strike 1970-70 [?] Calif Sup Court Ruling 1972
almost inaudible
5-6
The House Meeting. The 1st Person
Bobby Debale [?]
La Paz Elect Org
CM (7) Ross
II Ross
Tape III
Tape V
Simulated phone calls. To Steffan's report on simulated phone calls
Part of prep for P.V., reports on sim'd P.V.'s, Paul, etc. Dolores explains Gallo-Teamo[illeg.] contract
Prep for Hs Mtgs. Ability to admit we flubbed the dub. Ploting [sic] out the "Hs Mtg" per se. Taking the blame, yourself. How to avoid organizing for other organizers
Audiocassettes, undated 2
Cesar - Hs Mtg. with F. Wrks to dream[illeg.] El Malcreado [sic]. Cesar on "Organizing" and fouding of NFWA to big grape strike
Dolores on Big Strike to Gallo 1967 UFW
9/27/74. Lucia and Fred Ross. Gallo 1970 to Cesar's fast. Beginning boycott - Beginning Lettuce strike 1970
1/75. Strike of '73 - Teamo violence girl blinded. Gallo Strike - 1973 to "17 shot - 200 hospitalized" - 1973 strke.
Fri evening. After the House Mtg
Florida 72-75 also NLRB fights. Traiing Session.
Barbara Macry House Mtg.
Trip to Fresno
Starting a training session for "the book" - "Getting" ready to organize - USC and church - illeg. - Milligan - carrots
10/10, LA. Ross, Bobbie and Ken - sim'd 1st visits.
10/10. LA. Ross. Why Teamos are in Agric and Vs [?] UFW. Beginning of background. Hs Mtg outline. Hist of Teamos i. ag and why in this situation
Cesar and Chicano labor leaders. Cesar in Madera [illeg.] During Fast
Oakland. Bad tape
Field Office Session
Ross and Vivian - New organizers don't know themsleves or the people. Org of LA CSO. Roybal. Cesar and beginning of Long March, 1966. Saint [illeg.]
NY. Dave Koeler. Mary Mc. Core Group Mtg. P.M.
Planning the Hs Mtg - Gallo emphasis to discussion of NLRA. Following Hs Meeting Outline to Cesar and fried chicken story. Doroles story re Cesar's hardships
1st 60 sec spot recruitment, 2nd announcement. History - Gallo following Hs Mtg Outline
NLRA. Waves of immigrants [illeg.]
Boston HM. Role Playing Pt. 2. Marc [?], Alice, Iris [?], Max
4/28. Tape 2 - Boston Session. The Outline to Fast
Tape 3 Boston Session. Pt 1, 2, and 3 of Outline
Tape 5 Boston. House Mtg Practice. Alice, Marc, Max. Wk on HEI [?] Outline to So. West Corner Delano Movie
Tape 6 - HM practice. Post Mortems on sim'd HM's - Chris Donoughue role player CMLI critique. Sacrifice beginning of fried chicken
Tape 7 Boston. Fried chicken - service center. Fast Boston. Wkg on outline - Florida
Tape 8 Boston. Wkg on outline - 1st MA graduate Delano High School. Irv runs sim'd HM. Joy gives $5.00 to Cesar
Chicago.
Fred Ross. House Meeting. Discussion on H. Mtg. - content - final appeal for help for other Hs Mtgs etc. More discussion on H. Mtg. content by Jan P., Jim and Vivien, Andy Coe
Fred Ross. House Meeting. April 3 - Review of previous day. Violence. Teamo's - Valdez - H. Hasawara
Feb 1. CORE group prep Oakland. Debbie on NSO agenda.
Core group - Oakland. Prep for NSOrg 1st part of agenda. Dan Bacar - logistics
NSO discussion. Wash DC core group
Oak Training. Post Morteming
House Meeting. Steffan and Frank Ortiz Hs Mtgs. Dolores
Cesar with Dick Muster [?]
Empty cassette case labelled 1-2
Empty cassette case labelled 9-10
Unlabelled
Unlabelled
Unlabelled
Mi[illeg.] Ybarra Hs Mtg
Politics Clint Reilly
Putting HM together. 174 on - Post Mortem after night of phoning - Jay and Iris. Role playing HM with Jap [Jay?]
Larry HM. Larry and Iris
Not used - bum tape
Tues., May 15, Carmel. Post Mortem
Drum Major (365) Memphis. March on Washington 8/63. A.D. Randolph, W. Reuther [?], R. Wilkins (506) "I Have a Dream"
Tape 1, Carmel [written in dark ink on black cassette]
Discussion of Hs Mtgs just prior to video taping. From 1st Hs Mtg to A.W. 1970 - Daily staff mtgs - self organization. Analysis of org's day etc.
Bach, etc. MARR. Neat music
Empty cassette case labelled "Post Mortem. Vibes session and maybe Post Mortem. Heavy set guy with German last name. Jackie - Katie, Mark"
Empty cassette case labelled "Coleridge-Taylor: Petite Suite de Concert, Etc. (SXLP 30123, EMI)"
Unlabelled
Unlabelled
Gallo strike 1975
Miscellaneous correspondence [personal & professional] 1930-1974
CSO interviews, Hanford, California 1959
Giumarra vs. UFW injunction [photocopy] ; Delano strike flier ; UFW Spanish bulletins 1967
War Relocation Authority memoranda, etc. 1944-1945
Clippings ; UFW pamphlet re: Perelli-Minetti 1966
Ross - History of the Farmworker Movement 10/1974 [also Box 16 Folder 11] ; training materials - house meeting outline ; memo re: DiGiorgio
Handwritten notes, list of names 1962 [typescript fragments on back of some sheets]
Annotated typescript excerpts [photocopy; possibly Cesar Chavez memoir??]
Mimeograph in Spanish [illegible]
Miscellaneous: Daisy Ross obit draft ; poem ; 1 p. annotated typescript [related to above?]
Invoices, etc. 1969-1970
ORIGINALS RESTRICTED DUE TO CONDITION SEE BOX 19A FOR COPIES
Series H. Accession 2015
Photograph of Bishop Donahue, Stockton undated
Ross letters to father 1920
Ross report cards, letter from USC schoolmate (1970) 1928-1935
Ross, Lillian (et al.). The Argonauts (Modern Age Books) [photocopy] 1940
Library of Congress American Memory website: "Lafe" Todd, Arvin & Shafter camps 1940 [printouts]
Chavez Daily Reports 1954-1957
Ventura CSO fiesta planning 1959
Arizona/Guadalupe clippings, etc. 1964-1970
CSO clippings, Records of CSO Deputy Registrars
Farm Security Agency (FSA) Efficiency Report 1941
Ross draft classification 1944
War Relocation Authority (WRA) 1943-1946
scrapbook of clippings, photos, memoranda, etc. 1949-1957
South Gate Tenant Council to Ross 1946
Alinsky - Ross correspondence 1953-1954
Ross interview transcript re: Japanese-American Relocation 1972
American Council on Race Relations [photocopies from University of Chicago] 1946-1947
McCall's reprint on Alinsky, Back of the Yard
Council for Human Rights Anti-Klan Rally 1946
"The Least 'Un" - Ross FSA poem 1951
Ross, Fred. Get Out If You Can: The Saga of Sal Si Puedes (California Federation for Civic Unity) 1953
Chavez to Delgadillo [photocopy] 1954
Ross to Chavez [photocopies] 1954-1955
CSO documents and clippings 1954-1960
CSO Second National Convention, Los Angeles 1955
Stockton CSO, Louis Gonzalez correspondence, etc. 1957-1985
CSO Reporter 1958
Oxnard clipping 1959
Alinsky testimony - Commission on Civil Rights Housing Hearing 1959
Day Planner 1959
Burton - Assembly Bill no. 5 1961
CSO Executive Board minutes 1962-03-16
Wife To Ross 1964
Di Giorgio pro-Teamster flier ; UFW fliers ; Newsweek article 1966
El Malcriado Vol. II No.5 1968
Chavez presidential endorsements 1968
Chavez statement following fast 1968-03-10
Ross testimony - ALRB hearing re: UFW vs. Gallo 1978
Ross 75th Birthday 1985
UFW 25th Anniversary Benefit program 1987-05-23
Ross 80th Birthday 1990
Weatherwax to Ross, Jr. 1992
Ross memorial 1992
Ross memorial statements: Jimmy Herman (ILWU) ; Joe Castorena (LA CSO) 1992
Ross memorial statement: Cesar Chavez 1992
Pelosi - Congressional recognition 1992
John Dunne quote 1992
Ross memorial clippings 1992
Ross clippings
Ellie Cohen documentary proposal 1985
Michael J. Ganley, Fred Ross: Portrait of a Hero drafts 1985
Nancy Elliot recollections 2003
Axioms
FBI Freedom of Information Request 1995
Ross, Conquering Goliath draft
Ross, The Di Giorgio Story annotated draft
Chavez, The Fresno - Madera - Bakersfield Story March 1954-June 1956 annotated draft
Chavez, The Oxnard Story parts I-V 1958-1962 annotated draft
Chavez clippings
San Bernadino CSO, Imperial 1954
Alinsky - Ross correspondence 1955-1956
CSO Consolidation 1957-1958
Alinsky - Ross correspondence 1957-1964
Alinsky - Ross correspondence - incomplete, undated
CSO Alinsky - Ross miscellaneous
Misc. notes, memoranda, minutes - CSO, UFW, etc.
Audio reel #12. Fred Ross, Cesar Chavez, Dr. McCann [sticker on reel: May 7 - Part 2 - Dr. McCann + Part 1 - Fred Ross]
Audio reel #20. Cesar - Jan.1, 1966 - The March - April 66 1966
Audio Reel #22. Blanca Gomez and Cesar Chavez 1967-01-18
Audio Reel #24. Reel 2 - Fred Ross & Cesar Chavez. May 7. Transcribed - 10/11/65 [sticker on reel: May 7 - Fred Ross. Reel #2] 1965
Audio Reel #25. Fred Ross & Cesar Chavez, Arizona Training Program 1960-05
Audiocassette: Ed. Session 1971-09-27
Audiocassette: Beginning of Fresno Bee Clippings Aug.65 - June 2, 1966 ; Fresno Bee UWAC Clippings 6/3/66 - 8/8/67 1965-1967