Car with Grape Boycott Sign
A sign on the roof of a car that says, "Grapes = Poverty" supporting the United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO grape boycott. The car is parked on a street in front of the Milwaukee County War Memorial. The nationwide UFW/AFL-CIO grape boycott movement to improve conditions for migrant farm workers was started in California by activist Cesar Chavez. Inspired, the Wisconsin farm-worker labor union, Obreros Unidos (United Workers) organized boycott action in every major Wisconsin city. Un carro con un letrero del boicot de uvas Un letrero en el techo de un carro que dice "Uvas = Pobreza" ("Grapes = Poverty") para apoyar el boicot de uvas de United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO. El carro está estacionado en una calle enfrente de Milwaukee County War Memorial (monumento a los caídos en la guerra). El movimiento nacional del boicot de uvas organizado por UFW/AFL-CIO para mejorar las condiciones de los trabajadores agrícolas emigrantes fue empezado en California por el activista Cesar Chávez. Obreros Unidos, el sindicato de trabajadores agrícolas en Wisconsin, fue inspirado a organizar acciones de boicot en cada ciudad mayor de Wisconsin. |
Image ID: | 89908 |
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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 |
Original Format Type: | digital file |
Original Format Number: | 1114000022 |
Original Dimensions: | 4611 X 2370 pixels |
Information about grape boycott from United Farm Workers website. 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. |
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