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| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Picketers on the sidewalk in front of a Kroger supermarket in Oshkosh demonstrating for and against the grape boycott. Signs read, "Eat Grapes Best Medicin... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Side view of Delta Labor Agency recruiting trailer in South Texas showing advertisement in Spanish seeking men, women and families to pick tomatoes in Cali... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | John Schmitt, AFL CIO president; Manuel Salas, labor contractor for Libby, McNeil and Libby; Cesar Chavez and Eliseo Medina sit together on a panel in Milw... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Migrant laborer hiring stall in a dirt parking lot next to a protruding pipe and litter on the ground. The stall is a metal frame structure with a thin ben... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Farm worker Conrado Lopez, on strike against Libby, McNeill & Libby, displays his "Huelga! — NFWA" union button with its trademark black eagle symbol in a ... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Migrant laborers hoe a cucumber field by hand. There is one worker in the foreground and two others in the background. Rows of seedlings extend across the ... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin agricultural labor union Oberos Unidos founder Jesús Salas addressing a rally crowd from a podium after a farm worker demonstration. The crowd is... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Hand-lettered protest signs and United Farm Workers (UFW) paper flags taped to a concrete wall in response to an official posting by the Fall River Canning... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a notice posted by the Fall River Canning Company in response to striking workers. The left notice is posted in English and on the right is Spa... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Jorge Vasquez (wearing beret) discusses strategy with Fall River Canning Company workers after walkout. Children, youth and adults stand clustered in a cir... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Ground-level view of workers cultivating a cucumber field with hand tools. Cultivación de pepinos Vista desde el suelo de unos trabajadore... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Ground-level view of a double row of workers cultivating a cucumber field with hoes. Cultivando pepino Vista desde el suelo de una línea ... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Dump where discarded mattresses were resold to growers for migrant laborer camp use. A sign identifying the dump and its hours stands behind a barbed wire ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A picketer pushing the wheelchair of another supporter of the United Farmworkers — AFL-CIO grape boycott. They are possibly picketing in front of a superma... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A group of picketers supporting the nationwide United Farmworkers/AFL-CIO grape boycott in front of Kroger Supermarket. Picketers are carrying signs that s... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | 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 f... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Ernesto Chacon, a grape boycott organizer from Milwaukee, is wearing a jacket, sunglasses and a necklace around his neck. He is holding a United Farmworker... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | On the left, Ernesto Chacon, is in sunglasses and holding a sign that says, "Don't Buy Grapes," picketing for the United Farmworkers/AFL-CIO grape boycott.... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Four young men sitting in front of a grocery store. The young man on the left is sitting beside a crate of corn, wearing sunglasses and holding a bag of gr... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Picketers in front of Kroger supermarket in Milwaukee carrying United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO signs that read, "Boycott Grapes" to support the grape boyc... |
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