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Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) Records
Collection
Identifier: LR001506
Abstract
Founded in Toledo, OH in 1967 by Baldemar Valasquez, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) represents migrant workers in the agricultural industry, and seeks to promote and protect the right of farm workers to actively participate in decisions that affect their conditions. FLOC centered their efforts not on growers, who the organization realized were relatively powerless, but on the large food processing companies who ran the agricultural business and ultimately controlled farm workers...
Dates:
1967 - 2005; Majority of material found within 1979 - 1989
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Michigan Farm Worker Ministry Coalition Photographs and Audio-Visual and Other Materials
Collection
Identifier: LAV000895
Abstract
The Michigan Farm Worker Ministry Coalition, active from 1978 through the 1990s, worked to assist farm workers’ organizing efforts and to improve their access to health care and education. This collection consists of photographs documenting their activities and the activities of related organizations, as well as audio recordings, posters, banners, and other ephemera.
Dates:
1953 - 1993
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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