Guide to the Farm worker movement collection CEMA 96

Finding aid prepared by Salvador Güereña
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California, 93106-9010
Phone: (805) 893-3062
Email: special@library.ucsb.edu; URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections
2015 April


Title: Farm worker movement collection
Identifier/Call Number: CEMA 96
Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 0.5 linear feet (1 document box, 1 slide binder box with approx. 150 35 mm slides, 1 audio-cassette tape)
Date (inclusive): 1968-1973
Abstract: This is a small collection housed in one 1/2 document box and 1 slide binder box. The collection contains 1968-1972 issues of the English language version of the United Farm Workers (UFW) news magazine El Macriado; aproximately 150 slides related to agricultural labor strikes, boycotts, and cultural arts performances. There is a photocopied script for a Farm Workers Slide Show (undated), booklets, broadsides and ephemera concerning the farm workers movement, including a "Chicano Movement" file related to UCSB and Santa Barbara and related issues. A printed interview with Cesar Chavez is found in this collection, and an audio-cassette entitled, UFW Slide Show.
Physical Location: Located in Del Norte (Boxes 1-2)
Language of Materials: The collection is in English.

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of Item], Farm worker movement collection, CEMA 96. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Source and dates unknown.

Processing Information

Processed by Salvador Güereña, 2015

Scope and Contents note

The collection is presently housed in 1/2 document box and 1 slide binder box. The collection contains 1968-1972 issues of the English language version of the UFW news magazine El Macriado; aproximately 150 slides related to agricultural labor strikes, boycotts, and cultural arts performances. There is a photocopied script for a Farm Workers Slide Show (undated), booklets, broadsides and ephemera concerning the farm workers movement, including a "Chicano Movement" file related to UCSB and Santa Barbara and related issues. A printed interview with Cesar Chavez is found in this collection, and an audio-cassette entitled, UFW Slide Show. The collection is arranged alphabetically except for the slides which lack written descriptions and are arranged in the order that they arrived.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Chicano movement--California
Grape Strike, Calif., 1965-1970
Mexican American agricultural laborers--California
Mexican Americans--Politics and government
UFW
United Farm Workers of America

Box 1, Folder 1

Chicano Movement 1970

Box 1, Folder 2

Farm Workers 1970-1973

Box 1, Folder 3

El Malcriado (English) 1970-1973

Box 2

Slide Album undated