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| Description: | Images of men with the words "Workers," "Farmers," and "Learn New Ideas at Highlander," collaged around them. Part of a series of Highlander photographic c... |
| Date: | 01 18 1961 |
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| Description: | The farm workers picket line near El Centro during the important Imperial Valley lettuce strike. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | Picketers in front of Kroger supermarket in Milwaukee carrying United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO signs that read, "Boycott Grapes" to support the grape boyc... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A benefit gathering at James Rector People's Park to support the United Farmworkers (UFW) grape boycott. The UFW sign, with its eagle symbol, posted in th... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | An Obreros Unidos (United Workers) member holding a sign, possibly like those in the background, that says "Juntarnos Para Ser Reconocidos/Hablar Para Ser ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Francisco Rodriguez of Crystal City, Texas is picketing a Wautoma grocery store during the grape boycott in 1968. Grape boycotts in Wisconsin were organize... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Two men are riding on a cucumber harvesting machine called the "Pickle Harvester" as labeled on the center between two lights. The man on the right, wearin... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Jesus Salas, center, is the leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a Chicano migrant workers' rights group started in the 1960s for the improvement of ... |
| Date: | 08 15 1966 |
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| Description: | 30 marchers of Obreros Unidos (United Workers) march from Wautoma to Madison on Highway 21 to petition lawmakers to hold farms and food industry corporatio... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Jesus Salas addresses a rally at a podium in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Behind him are marchers who began the march from Wautoma and walked to M... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Jesus Salas, right, is the leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a Chicano migrant workers' rights group started in the 1960s for the improvement of w... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Marchers of Obreros Unidos (United Workers) leaving Wautoma and walking towards Madison along Highway 21 to petition lawmakers to hold farms and food indus... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Jesus Salas, in a white shirt and standing in front of the microphone with his arm raised, addresses a rally at the top of the steps in front of Waushara C... |
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