Strikers Leaving Field | Photograph | Wisconsin Historical Society

Photograph

Strikers Leaving Field

Strikers Leaving Field | Photograph | Wisconsin Historical Society
Migrant farm laborers leaving a cucumber field to strike. Strikes in Wisconsin were organized by the local farm-worker labor union, Obreros Unidos, an independent farm worker labor union effort in the 1960s.<p>Huelguistas dejan un campo<p>Obreros agrícolas emigrantes dejan un campo de pepino para hacer huelga. Las huelgas en Wisconsin fueron organizadas por Obreros Unidos, un esfuerzo independiente del sindicato de trabajadores agrícolas durante los años 1960.</p>
DESCRIPTION
Migrant farm laborers leaving a cucumber field to strike. Strikes in Wisconsin were organized by the local farm-worker labor union, Obreros Unidos, an independent farm worker labor union effort in the 1960s.

Huelguistas dejan un campo

Obreros agrícolas emigrantes dejan un campo de pepino para hacer huelga. Las huelgas en Wisconsin fueron organizadas por Obreros Unidos, un esfuerzo independiente del sindicato de trabajadores agrícolas durante los años 1960.

RECORD DETAILS
Image ID:91709
Creation Date: 1967
Creator Name:Giffey, David
City:Portage
County:Columbia
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:1114000055
Original Dimensions:6705 X 3484 pixels
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Information Sources for Obreros Unidos: 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.
SUBJECTS
Civil rights
Migrant labor
Agriculture
Field crops
Unions (labor)
Hats
Work clothes
Child labor
Fields (Agriculture)
Land use, Rural
African Americans
Children and adults
Outdoor photography

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