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Cesar Chavez and United Farm Workers view detail comment email this

Collection of over 2000 pages of digitized documents related to Cesar Chavez, "Founder and Director of the National Farm Workers Association, later known as the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. The FBI investigated Mr. Chavez and his organization based on allegations in 1965 that he and others within the organization had communist affiliations." From the Freedom of Information Act site, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/chavez.htm
Topics: Agriculture, Labor, Notable People
Last updated May 10, 2007


United Farm Workers (UFW) view detail comment email this

This official site includes newspaper articles, press releases, current advocacy campaigns, and legislative information. Provides a history of the UFW and its various conflicts in California agriculture as well as a biography of the founder, Cesar Chavez, and other notables, such as Dolores Huerta and Arturo Rodriguez. Also available in Spanish and Thai.
http://www.ufw.org/
Topics: Agriculture, Labor
Last updated Jan 2, 2009


United Farm Workers in Washington State view detail comment email this

"The purpose of this project ... is to share the personal stories of Farm Workers and those involved in the struggle for Farm Worker rights in Washington State." The site contains an overview of the United Farm Workers (UFW) in Washington state, a gallery of photographs from the 1960s through the 1990s, and transcripts of interviews with people active in the movement. From the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington.
http://depts.washington.edu/pcls/ufw/
Topics: Agriculture, Labor
Last updated May 2, 2005




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