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United Farm Workers Ephemera Collection
SPC.2021.016  
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Material related to farm workers 1957, 1965, undated

Scope and Contents

"California Guide for Farm Workers" State of California Department of Employment; "Back in the Strawberry Fields" [photograph]; Student Committee on Agricultural Labor "Farm Workers- Students, The Same Battle?" [broadside].
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Saturday Evening Post featuring article "Strike!" by John Gregory Dunne May 6, 1967

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United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO mailer featuring letter from Cesar Chavez regarding the boycott of California table grapes; reprint by "El Malcriado" of San Francisco Chronicle article regarding Eugene McCarthy's support of the grape boycott; flyer; and boycott list 1968

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Profile: Cesar Chavez by Peter Matthiessen. Reprinted from the June 21 and June 28, 1969 issues of the New Yorker by UAW Western Region Six June 1969

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Time Magazine issue featuring the cover story "The Grapes of Wrath Mexican-Americans on the March" July 4, 1969

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Memorandums from Pete (Money) Velasco, Defense Fund regarding food caravan events; strike contributions, and assistance November 1970-June 1971

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Volunteers needed to boycott lettuce at all Federal Base Installations [memorandum] 1971

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"Justice for Farm Workers Vote No on Prop 22" United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO [flyer] 1972

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United Farm Workers picketing photographs June-August 1973

Physical Description: 5 items

Conditions Governing Use

Photographs courtesy of Plain Dealer Library
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"Stephie Koyak 16 of West Geauga High School picketing Guinta's at Cedar and Warrensville University Heights [Cleveland, OH]. Part of United Farm Workers Non-Union Grape Effort" [black-and-white photograph] July 18, 1973

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Rolling Stone Magazine, Issue No. 143 featuring an article entitled "Battle of Coachella Valley" by David Harns September 13, 1973

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"Kennedy Supports Chavez-- U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (right) Saturday reaffirmed his support for the struggle of Cesar Chavez (left) to regain farm labor contracts lost to the Teamsters Union..". AP Wirephoto. [black-and-white photograph] September 25, 1973

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"Picket at West Side Market. Representatives of the United Farm Workers and sympathizers picketed the West Side Market [Cleveland, OH.] for an hour yesterday to publicize the boycott of lettuce and California grapes." [black-and-white photograph] June 21, 1974

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"Support the Farmworkers Come to a Mass Picket of Safeway". Eugene Friends of the Farmworkers, Eugene OR. [flyer] circa 1973

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"The United Farm Workers Invites you and your friend to join Cesar Chavez" [flyer for potluck] circa 1974

Language of Material: English, Spanish; Castilian.
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"Farmworkers March on Gallo, March 110 mi. for Justice. From the Bay to the Gallo Winery in Modesto" [small poster] [1975]

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Rolling Stone Magazine, issue No. 224. Features a portrait of Cesar Chavez October 21, 1976

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Documents in favor of Proposition 14 circa 1976

Scope and Contents

"Farm Workers Ask You to Vote Yes on Prop. 14" [flyers]; "Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers ask you to..." [flyer]; "Justice? Law + Order? What Can You Do to Bring Justice to Farm Workers? Support Prop 14" [broadside]; "Guarantee Farm Workers the Right to Vote Yes on 14" [flyer]; "Cesar Chavez Tue. Oct. 19, Yes on 14!", Cal State Fullerton [flyer]; "Argument in Support of Proposition 14: The Farm Worker Initiative" photocopied article by Rev. Wayne (Chris) Hartmire; "Gus Hall and Jarvis Tyner say: Farmworkers are not Private Property" [booklet]; "For Farm Workers Yes on 14" [bumper sticker].
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Documents Against Proposition 14 circa 1976

Scope and Contents

Includes: California Farm Bureau Federation "Proposition 14 is a Disaster, Vote No on 14" [pamphlet], "Proposition 14, The Farm Labor Initiative" [circular], "Proposition 14, the Farm Labor Initiative is a Disaster" [broadside]; Citizens for a Fair Farm Labor Law "No on 14" [poster], "Proposition 14 would create a very bad law...." [pamphlet]; Protect Private Property No on 14 Committee [brochure]
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Letter from Cesar Chavez to Walter Olesky July 3, 1978

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Vinyl records- "Huelga En General"; Joan Baez "Maria Dolores", "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee); "Huelga En General! Songs of the United Farm Workers by El Teatro Campesino circa 1970s

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"The Farmworkers Request Your Assistance in Persuading Lucky Stores Inc. to Stop Selling Grapes" [flyer] circa 1970s

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United Farm Workers poncho circa 1970s

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photograph of Cesar Chavez April 19, 1984

Conditions Governing Use

Ap Newsfeatures Photo
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Cesar Chavez memorial service, Delano, CA. [photographs] April 30, 1993

Physical Description: 5 items
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Cesar Chavez stamps 2003

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"Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers Need Help in Los Angeles" United Farm Workers AFL-CIO [flyer] undated

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United Farm Workers of American, AFL-CIO flyer regarding which wines to buy and which to boycott in support of farmworkers undated

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Support Farm Workers; Boycott Grapes; Boycott Gallo; Lettuce boycott [stickers and pins] undated

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United Farm Workers flag undated