Photograph
Migrant Worker Meeting
| Migrant farm workers meeting in Bancroft after a strike. There are four men wearing hats standing in front of a women's outhouse. Strikes in Wisconsin were organized by the local farm-worker labor union, Obreros Unidos, an independent farm worker labor union effort in the 1960s. Junta de trabajadores emigrantes Trabajadores emigrantes en una junta después de una huelga en Bancroft, Wisconsin. Cuatro hombres con sombreros están parados enfrente de una letrina para mujeres. Las huelgas en Wisconsin fueron organizadas por el sindicato local de trabajadores agrícolas, Obreros Unidos, un esfuerzo independiente del sindicato de trabajadores agrícolas durante los años 1960. |
| Image ID: | 91711 |
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| Creation Date: | 1967 |
| Creator Name: | Giffey, David |
| City: | Bancroft |
| County: | Portage |
| 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: | 1114000056 |
| Original Dimensions: | 6396 X 6120 pixels |
| 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. |
| Agriculture |
| Unions (labor) |
| Trees |
| Hats |
| Work clothes |
| Outhouses |
| Hispanic Americans |
| Men |
| Outdoor photography |
| Civil rights |
| Migrant labor |
| Strikes and lockouts |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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