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Agricultural industries -- California

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Jacques E. Levy research collection on Cesar Chavez

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2406
Overview: The collection consists of audiotapes, transcripts, notebooks, correspondence, documents, printed material, and writings accumulated by Levy while conducting research for his book, Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa. The collection documents the life of Cesar Chavez as well as the early history of the United Farm Workers union. The collection contains a large oral history component, 314 audiotapes totalling ca. 500 hours of interviews, with extensive interviews of Chavez, Chavez family...
Dates: 1959-1997

Jon Lewis photographs of the United Farm Workers movement

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 466
Overview: This collection consists of approximately eleven thousand photographs created by Jon Lewis that document the activities of Ce?sar Cha?vez, the National Farm Workers Association, and United Farm Workers Organizing Committee in California, 1966-1971, as well as related publications and audiovisual materials, including videotapes and videodiscs, 1967-2009. Most images document activities related to the California Grape Strike in 1966.
Dates: 1966-2009, bulk 1966-1968