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Police encounter with a man during United Farm Workers Organizing Committee strike in Delano, California

Police encounter with a man during United Farm Workers Organizing Committee strike in Delano

Forty Acres, Roy Reuther Administration Building, 30168 Garces Highway (Northwest Corner of Garces Highway and Mettler Avenue), Delano, Kern County, CA

The Roy Reuther Administration Building is one of four buildings at Forty Acres, a property closely associated with the life of Cesar Chavez and the…

Pickets on the highway calling workers from the fields, 1933 cotton strike

Photograph of pickets on the highway during the 1933 cotton strike.

Conference called by the Steinbeck Committee to Aid Agricultural Organization during the cotton strike

Photograph showing conference called by the Steinbeck Committee.

Speaker, migratory worker, leader in the cotton strike, at Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization (Steinbeck Committee), Bakersfield, California. Saying: "Brother, 'Hits pick seventy-five cent cotton or starve. Brother, 'hits pick seventy-five cent cotton or else"

Photograph showing leader in the cotton strike at a conference to aid agricultural workers.

Migrant agricultural workers' home. California

Black and white photograph of migrant workers home in California.