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The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers (UFW), is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States. It originated from the merger of two workers' rights organizations, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) led by César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and Gilbert Padilla and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) led by organizer Larry Itliong.
Journalist Lorenza Munoz has said that Kouns was "one of the leading chroniclers of the farm worker labor rights struggle led by Cesar Chavez" in the 1960s and 1970s. [2] Historian Richard Steven Street has written that Kouns was the first photographer to focus on the California Migrant Ministry (CMM), one of the early important forces in the ...
El Malcriado was a Chicano/a labor newspaper that ran between 1964 and 1976. [1] It was established by the Chicano labor leader Cesar Chavez as the unofficial newspaper of the United Farm Workers (originally National Farm Workers of America) during the Chicano/a Movement of the 1960s and early 1970s.
George "Elfie" Ballis (August 12, 1925 – September 24, 2010) was an American photographer and activist who advocated on behalf of migrant farm workers in California, and took tens of thousands of photographs documenting the efforts of César Chávez, the Mexican American labor leader who founded the United Farm Workers.
The organizing between the two communities also led to the formation of the United Farm Workers union in 1967, with Chávez as director and Itliong as assistant director.
El Teatro Campesino (Spanish for "The Farmworker's Theater") is a Chicano theatre company in California.Performing in both English and Spanish, El Teatro Campesino was founded in 1965 as the cultural arm of the United Farm Workers and the Chicano Movement with the "full support of César Chávez."
His father breathed life into United Farm Workers in 1966, and RFK Jr. was a pallbearer at César Chávez funeral in 1993. His father breathed life into United Farm Workers in 1966, and RFK Jr ...
The caption read “‘we’ve developed the perfect farm machine for you; it uses the short-handed hoe and won’t join the United Farm Worker’s Union.” ...