Poster, United Farm Workers
Poster, United Farm Workers
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- Description
- UFW leader Cesar Chavez organized a nationwide boycott against California grape growers demanding higher wages and better living and working conditions for migrant farm workers.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- poster
- date made
- mid 1960s
- depicted
- Chavez, Cesar
- affiliated union
- Lithographers and Photoengravers International Union
- maker
- Lithographers and Photoengravers International Union
- place made
- United States: California, San Francisco
- referenced
- United States: California
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- yellow (overall color)
- dark blue (overall color)
- light blue (overall color)
- green (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 17 1/2 in x 23 in; 44.45 cm x 58.42 cm
- ID Number
- 1996.0250.02
- catalog number
- 1996.0250.02
- accession number
- 1996.0250
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian
- subject
- Protest
- Farming
- Strikes and Boycotts
- Wine
- Labor Unions
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- Political and Military History: Political History, Labor History Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Agriculture
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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