Photograph
UFW Grape Boycott
| A picketer pushing the wheelchair of another supporter of the United Farmworkers — AFL-CIO grape boycott. They are possibly picketing in front of a supermarket in Milwaukee. The man in the wheelchair is holding a cigarette and two signs that both say: "Honor Picket Line/AFL-CIO Supports Grape Boycott/United Farmworkers AFL-CIO." Grape boycotts in Wisconsin were organized by the local farm-worker labor union, Obreros Unidos (United Workers) an independent farm worker labor union effort in the 1960s. UFW apoya el boicot de uvas Un manifestante empujando la silla de ruedas de otro simpatizante del boicot de uvas de United Farmworkers — AFL-CIO. Están posiblemente manifestando enfrente de un supermercado en Milwaukee. El hombre en la silla de ruedas está sosteniendo un cigarro y dos letreros que ambos dicen "Honora la línea de piquete/AFL-CIO apoya el boicot de uvas/United Farmworkers AFL-CIO" ("Honor Picket Line/AFL-CIO Supports Grape Boycott/United Farmworkers AFL-CIO"). Los boicots de uva en Wisconsin fueron organizados por el sindicato local de trabajadores agrícolas, Obreros Unidos, un esfuerzo independiente del sindicato de trabajadores agrícolas durante los años 1960. |
| Image ID: | 89898 |
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| Creation Date: | 1969 |
| Creator Name: | Giffey, David |
| City: | Milwaukee |
| County: | Milwaukee |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | South Madison oral history project and migrant farmworker photographs, 1966-1971, 1999-2000 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
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| Information about Wisconsin grape boycotts from: Salas, Jesus and Giffey, David. "Lucha por la justicia: Movimiento de los trabajadores migrantes en Wisconsin = Struggle for Justice: The Migrant Farm Worker Labor Movement in Wisconsin." David Giffey, Photos by. Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Labor History Society; 1998. 15 p., and the Wisconsin Labor History website. The donor retains copyright to these images until January 1, 2030; any public use of these materials requires permission from the copyright holder with the exception of the persons named on the Statement of Gift dated July 6, 2011. |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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