Demonstration Signs
| Obreros Unidos (United Workers) demonstrators painting signs at a Milwaukee rally. In the background, a man is painting the National Farmworker's (NFW) Aztec eagle symbol on a poster. The message on the poster says: "Mi raza primero/Viva NFW (My race first/Long live NFW)." Another sign on the ground says "Chicano Power" with a raised fist symbol at its center. This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-native David Giffey's series "Struggle for Justice," images from the migrant farm worker struggle including an independent organizing effort in Wisconsin and the nationwide grape boycott movement started by Cesar Chavez of United Farm Workers during the 1960s and 1970s. Letreros para una demostración Demostradores de Obreros Unidos están pintando unos letreros durante una manifestación en Milwaukee. Hacia el fondo, un hombre está pintando en un póster el símbolo usado por National Farmworkers (NFW) de una águila Azteca. El mensaje en el póster dice: "Mi raza primero/Viva NFW." Otro letrero en el suelo dice "Poder Chicano" ("Chicano Power") con el símbolo de un puño al centro. Esta fotografía es parte de la serie "Lucha por la Justicia" tomada por David Giffey, originario de Wisconsin, las imágenes muestran la lucha de los trabajadores agrícolas emigrantes incluyendo un esfuerzo independiente organizado en Wisconsin y el movimiento nacional del boicot de uvas empezado por Cesar Chávez de la unión de campesinos o United Farm Workers durante los años 1960 y 1970. |
| Image ID: | 93076 |
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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: | 1114000092 |
| Original Dimensions: | 3230 X 4576 pixels |
| Information about Wisconsin migrant labor and 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. |
| Agriculture |
| Unions (labor) |
| Clothing and dress |
| Shoes |
| Food industry and trade |
| Hispanic Americans |
| Men |
| Outdoor photography |
| Demonstrations |
| Signs and symbols |
| Civil rights |
| Migrant labor |
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