Guide to the Joan London papers M0319

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Department of Special Collections and University Archives

1984; updated 2023

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Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Title: Joan London papers

Identifier/Call Number: M0319

Physical Description: 3 Linear Feet (6 manuscript boxes)

Date (inclusive): 1962-1970

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research. Materials must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, book draft for So Shall Ye Reap, newsletters and statements, and newsclippings and publications relating to the agricultural labor movement in California.

Biographical / Historical

Joan London (1901-1971) was the librarian for the California Labor Federation from the 1940s until her retirement in 1962. Afterwards, continued to be active in workers' movements and was a member of the Citizens for Farm Labor. She collaborated with Henry Pope Anderson and wrote So Shall Ye Reap: The Story of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers' Movement.

She was the elder child of author Jack London and was active in workers and leftist movements for much of her life.

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Preferred Citation

[identification of item], Joan London papers (M0319). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Ernesto Galarza, 1971.

Series 1. Correspondence

Scope and Contents

contains some biographical information and a letter from Cesar Chavez

Box 1, folder 1

Correspondence Feb. 1964-July 1968

Series 2. So Shall Ye Reap

Box 1, folder 2

Argument and chapter outline

Box 1, folder 3

Draft #1, Chapters I-II circa 1965

Box 1, folder 4

Chapters I-II, Notes, outlines, magazine clippings circa 1965

Box 1, folder 5

Chapters IV-VI

Box 1, folder 6

Chapters IV-VI, Notes, magazine clippings, reports, bibliography of government publications on migrant agricultural labor circa 1965

Box 1, folder 7

Chapters VII-X

Box 1, folder 8

Chapters VII-X, Notes on Reclamation Act, 1902; Wheatland Riot, 1913; Labor Union, 1859-1920; Clippings

Box 1, folder 9

Chapters VII-X, Notes on California farm labor in 1930s, Salinas Lettuce Strike, 1936

Box 1, folder 10

Chapters VII-X, Notes on "Organization Attempts up to AWOC," magazine clippings; copy of "To Build a Union," by Henry Anderson, c. 1961-1962

Box 1, folder 11

Chapters VII-X, Notes on Farm Labor in 1960s; bibliographies on The Anti-Monopoly Water Law and Public Power and Utility Regulation; clippings, 1964-1966

Box 1, folder 12

Draft #2, 3 revisions of Chapter I, "The Sowing of the Seed"

Box 1, folder 13

2 revisions of CHapter II, "The Workers"

Box 1, folder 14

Revision of Chapter III, "Bill of Grievances"

Box 2, folder 1

2 revisions of Chapter IV, "Strikes"

Box 2, folder 2

2 revisions of Chapter IV, "Strikes," "Bitter Harvest, Part 1"

Box 2, folder 3

2 revisions of Chapter V, no title [Bitter Harvest, Part 2]

Box 2, folder 4

Draft #3, Note by Joan London regarding this draft; Table of Contents; Forward; Chapter I: "Sowing of the Seed"

Box 2, folder 5

Chapter II: "The Gleaners"

Box 2, folder 6

Chapter III: "The Tares"

Box 2, folder 7

Chapter IV: "Bitter Harvest, Part 1"; Chapter V: "Bitter Harvest, Part 2" (fragment)

Box 2, folder 8

Fragment of Chapter [IX: Manhood: Cesar Chavez]; Afterword: "At the Rainbow's End"

Box 2, folder 9

General notes on California agriculture (1850s-1910); Land Ownership; History; Indians; Newsclippings, 1964-1965

Series 3. Farm Labor Organizations: Newsletters and Statements

Box 2, folder 10

Agricultural Labor Support Committee (sponsors of Delano Food Caravan); includes Food Caravan to Delano Newsletter Dec. 1966-April 1970

Box 2, folder 11

California Farm Bureau Federation Newsletter Mar. 1968-Nov. 1970

Box 2, folder 12

California Labor Federation, California AFL-CIO News Jan. 1967-Sept. 1978

Box 2, folder 13

California Labor Federation, statements Feb. 1962-Nov. 1962

Box 3, folder 1

California Labor Federation, statements Feb. 1964-Dec. 1964

Box 3, folder 2

California Labor Federation, statements Jan. 1965-Aug. 1965

Box 3, folder 3

California Labor Federation, statements Mar. 1966-June 1967

Box 3, folder 4

California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA), Memoranda Jan. 1968-Nov. 1968

Box 3, folder 5

Citizens for Farm Labor, Newsletters & Announcements Oct. 1963-Sept. 1965

Box 3, folder 6

National Agricultural Workers Union (AFL-CIO), statements and bulletins Apr. 1959-July. 1960

Box 3, folder 7

National Farm Workers Association (Bay Area Office), Newsletters. Includes "SUmmary of Events in the Grape Strike" Mar.-Aug. 1966, undated

Box 3, folder 8

National Sharecroppers Fund. Reports and funding appeals 1956-1968, undated

Box 3, folder 9

United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (NFWA & AWOC), Newsletters Sept. 1966-May 1967, undated

Box 3, folder 10

United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (NFWA & AWOC), Announcements, flyers Jan. 1966-Feb. 1970, undated

Box 3, folder 11

Miscellaneous newsletters 1959-1970

Box 3, folder 12

Miscellaneous reports, pamphlets, statements, bibliography 1953-1967

Series 4. Newsclippings on Farm Labor

Box 3, folder 14

Clippings April 1960-June 1964

Box 3, folder 15

Clippings July-Dec. 1964

Box 4, folder 1-4

Clippings 1965

Box 4, folder 5-7

Clippings Jan.-Sept. 1966

Box 5, folder 1

Clippings Oct.-1966-Feb. 1967

Box 5, folder 2

Clippings Mar.-Sept. 1967

Box 5, folder 3

Clippings Oct. 1967-Mar. 1968

Box 5, folder 4-5

Clippings Apr.-Dec. 1968

Box 5, folder 6-7

Clippings 1970

Series 5. Publications

Box 6

Various publications on agricultural labor and housing