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| Date: | 09 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The 6th Ward Contingent represented a community on the march. Black men, women and children from the CIO and AF of L, from small business, brought a messa... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Members of the United Packinghouse Workers Local 80 picketing the Campbell Soup Company plant. The union had walked out as a result of wage, union shop, an... |
| Date: | 05 1948 |
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| Description: | On a Baltimore street corner, Howard Burmeister and Margaret Boyd of United Packinghouse Workers Local 392, distributes a leaflet on the plight of striking... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 in New Orleans on strike against the Colonial Sugar Company. They graphically symbolize the UPWA's d... |
| Date: | 09 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Striking members of Amalgamated Meatcutters Local 28 picketing at the Swift and Company plant in Chicago. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Paul Spencer, a member of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 in Memphis, reminds citizens of his locals' strike against Wilson & Co. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 stand near the Swift & Co., plant in membership in an attempt to prevent Wilson products being lo... |
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| Description: | Mine, Mill & Smelters Union reading by a lake at Highlander Folk School. Will Thomas, second on the right, smoking a pipe. |
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| Description: | Smelter Workers posing, singing together at Highlander Folk School. A woman holding a camera is taking a picture of them. |
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| Description: | A Farmers Union member from Astatde, Tennessee, attending a workshop at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | A member of the Food, Tobacco and Agriculture workshop at Highlander Folk School posing near a tree with a fedora and cigar in his hand. |
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| Description: | Workers taking a break from building Farmers Union coop. |
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| Description: | Strike of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 227 against a Winn-Dixie grocery store. Identified among the picketers are Rev. Charles... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 20 on strike against the Wilson Company. They are standing outside their union... |
| Date: | 04 1962 |
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| Description: | Four members of Milwaukee Local 248 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America on strike against the Monarch company. The UPWA had a long history of org... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Huet Freeman of the Southern Mutual Help Association of Louisiana and two of his children after winning three-quarters of a million dollars for farm worker... |
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| Description: | United Packinghouse Workers of American representative Bruce Nolan (seated on the stool) speaks to workers at the White Packing Company which had refused t... |
| Date: | 08 1952 |
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| Description: | Four members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 56 employed at the Illinois Meats Company: (left to right) Bill Murdock, Mike Mickle, Bill... |
| Date: | 08 1951 |
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| Description: | Organizers for the United Packinghouse Workers of America hand out leaflets concerning an upcoming National Labor Relations Board election to be held at th... |
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