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Agricultural Workers History Collection

Collection

Identifier: LR002183

Abstract The United Farm Workers of America (predecessor name, United Farm Workers Organizing Committee) is a 20th Century union, created when the National Farm Workers Association and Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee merged to form UFWOC, to further the rights of farm workers. As the union developed, it led strikes and organizing campaigns to advance their efforts. Parts 1 and 2 of the Agricultural Workers History Collection are comprised of articles, publications, crop and migrant...

Dates: 1949 - 1977

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Bob Barber Papers

Collection

Identifier: LP001252

Abstract Bob Barber worked as a journalist, writing for the United Farm Workers publication, El Malcriado, reporting for KSAN and KPFA radio stations in California’s Bay Area, and as a freelance writer. His papers center on his activities as a reporter covering California farm labor election issues during the years 1973 to 1977. The collection includes over sixty hours of taped interviews with UFW organizers, union members, Teamsters, growers and others. In addition, the collection contains a unique...

Dates: 1973 - 1979

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Florida Christian Migrant Ministry Records

Collection

Identifier: LR000868

Abstract Subjects include: Latino migrant workers; sugarcane industry; UFW; Florida agriculture; rural poverty; black migrant workers

Dates: 1949 - 1975

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

National Farm Worker Ministry Records

Collection

Identifier: LR000338

Abstract The National Farm Worker Ministry (predecessor name California Migrant Ministry) is an agency of the Southern and Northern California Councils of Churches and is affiliated with the Migrant Ministry of the National Council of Churches. It carries on a direct and active ministry of service to farm workers and their families in the following areas: Education, health services, worship, recreation, literacy classes, voter registration, community development, and vocational counseling and training....

Dates: 1959 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1965 - 1980

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Orange County Interfaith Committee to Aid the Farm Workers Records

Collection

Identifier: LR001546

Abstract The Orange County Interfaith Committee to Aid Farm Workers was a branch of the National Farm Workers Ministry. NFWM began in 1920 as a ministry of charity and service, providing food, clothing and day care to the farm workers. When United Farm Workers founder César Chávez began organizing in the 1960's, he called on the religious community to change its emphasis from charity to justice. NFWM became the vehicle for people of faith to respond to that call.The collection consists of...

Dates: 1963 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1982 - 1988

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

UFW Administration Department Records

Collection

Identifier: LR000221_admin

Abstract United Farm Workers grew out of several farm workers organizations of the 1960s and was led by Cesar Chavez for over thirty years. The Administration Department records reflect the wide range of people and groups with whom the UFW corresponded. The work of the union itself is well represented, including U.S., Canada, and Europe boycott files, El Malcriado files, and negotiations with southern California grape growers. Part 3 of the records represent the second decade of the union’s progress...

Dates: 1955 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1978

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

UFW Arizona State Office Records

Collection

Identifier: LR000221_ASO

Abstract Subjects include: strikes - grapes, lettuce, sugar

Dates: 1965 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1972

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

UFW Information and Research Department Records

Collection

Identifier: LR002435

Abstract The UFW grew out of several farm workers organizations in the 1960s and was led for over thirty years by Cesar Chavez. The Information and Research Department serves as the research center for the union, collecting materials of interest in many areas importantin to the organization. Their records reflect the range of services which the union provided for its members, including legal and immigration assistance, workman's compensation claims, healthcare, and grievance mediation. Other subjects...

Dates: 1939 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1977

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

UFW Office of the President: Cesar Chavez Records

Collection

Identifier: LR000221

Abstract Cesar Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association, later known as the United Farm Workers, in 1962 at a convention he called. Growing up a migrant farm worker he honed his skills as an organizer with the Community Services Organization in California before splitting with them to form the NFWA. He would serve as president of the UFW until his death in 1993. These records reflect Chavez's beginnings with the CSO and the formative years of the NFWA, United Farm Workers Organizing...

Dates: 1947 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1962 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1998

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

UFW Pennsylvania Boycott: Pittsburgh Office Records

Collection

Identifier: LR002543

Abstract The Pittsburgh boycott office was set up and coordinated by the United Farm Workers Union to handle the organization of boycotted products and establishments in the state of Pennsylvania and its surrounding region. The office, headed by Frank Ortiz, Sr. Carol Dougherty, Barbara Macri and a number of others, dealt mainly with the boycotting of stores, which sold non-union products, or were involved in anti-union activities. As well, the office involved itself with other UFW interests including...

Dates: 1968 - 1978

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

UFW Public Relations: Jocelyn Sherman Records

Collection

Identifier: LR001774

Abstract After college, Jocelyn Sherman started at the United Farm Workers (UFW) as a public relations representative and has been with the UFW for over 20 years. Sherman served as a documentary photographer for the UFW and as manager of the UFW’s public relations department before becoming the UFW’s Internet Communications Director.Sherman’s records consist of the UFW public relations department’s files from 1988 to 2001 and reflect her work with UFW campaigns during that era, including...

Dates: 1979 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1988 - 2001

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Workers' Defense League Records

Collection

Identifier: LR000408

Abstract This collection of correspondence, press releases, newspaper clippings, speeches, trial briefs and transcripts, and published pamphlets and leaflets, thoroughly documents the Worker's Defense League's efforts to obtain justice for labor organizers, government critics, victims of racial and economic discrimination, and conscientious objectors, through established, legal processes.

Dates: 1935 - 1971

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

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