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Farmworkers’ Movement Gallery Walk
Use these images of California farmworkers in the 1960s to facilitate a Big Paper activity.
Subject
- History
- Social Studies
Language
English — USUpdated
Use these images in a gallery walk activity described in the lesson "California Grape Workers’ Strike: 1965–66."
![Cesar Chavez continued to keep the sweatshop conditions of farm labor in the nation’s eye as he organized the United Farm Workers of America during the 1960s. This UFW poster urged consumers to show their support for the UFW by refusing to buy lettuce and grapes.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-03/Screenshot%202023-03-01%20at%201.52.25%20PM.png?itok=je6_SPrX)
![Cesar Chavez continued to keep the sweatshop conditions of farm labor in the nation’s eye as he organized the United Farm Workers of America during the 1960s. This UFW poster urged consumers to show their support for the UFW by refusing to buy lettuce and grapes.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-03/Screenshot%202023-03-01%20at%201.52.25%20PM.png?itok=je6_SPrX)
![On March 17, 1966, César Chávez and approximately 100 individuals set off on a march from the town of Delano and onto Highway 99. Hundreds of supporters gathered along the way through the farmland of California’s Central Valley. Twenty-five days later, when the procession arrived in Sacramento on Easter Sunday, the crowd had increased to 10,000, making this the largest demonstration of farm workers to date in the history of California.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-03/Screenshot%202023-03-01%20at%201.52.39%20PM.png?itok=XIilEVwd)
![On March 17, 1966, César Chávez and approximately 100 individuals set off on a march from the town of Delano and onto Highway 99. Hundreds of supporters gathered along the way through the farmland of California’s Central Valley. Twenty-five days later, when the procession arrived in Sacramento on Easter Sunday, the crowd had increased to 10,000, making this the largest demonstration of farm workers to date in the history of California.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-03/Screenshot%202023-03-01%20at%201.52.39%20PM.png?itok=XIilEVwd)
![Dolores Huerta holding a “Huelga” sign during grape strike, Delano, California.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-03/Screenshot%202023-03-01%20at%201.53.29%20PM.png?itok=ycd99Bjm)
![Dolores Huerta holding a “Huelga” sign during grape strike, Delano, California.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-03/Screenshot%202023-03-01%20at%201.53.29%20PM.png?itok=ycd99Bjm)
![Braceros perform stoop labor and hoe rows with short-handled hoes in a field in California.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-03/Screenshot%202023-03-01%20at%201.53.47%20PM.png?itok=yyM4_jht)
![Braceros perform stoop labor and hoe rows with short-handled hoes in a field in California.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-03/Screenshot%202023-03-01%20at%201.53.47%20PM.png?itok=yyM4_jht)
![Photograph shows farm workers and supporters of the United Farm Workers (UFW) during the Peregrinacion (Pilgrimage), a 340 mile march from Delano to the steps of the state Capitol in Sacramento, California.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-03/MarchDelano.jpg?itok=bQF30PRD)
![Photograph shows farm workers and supporters of the United Farm Workers (UFW) during the Peregrinacion (Pilgrimage), a 340 mile march from Delano to the steps of the state Capitol in Sacramento, California.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-03/MarchDelano.jpg?itok=bQF30PRD)
United Farm Workers Poster
Credit:
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, https://learninglab.si.edu/q/r/2501560
César Chávez
Credit:
National Portrait Gallery, © Ernest Lowe, https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2010.10
Dolores Huerta
Huelga means “strike” in Spanish.
Credit:
Photograph by Harvey Wilson Richards / Harvey Richards Media Archive
Farmworkers in California, 1965
Credit:
Leonard Nadel
March from Delano to Sacramento
Credit:
Courtesy of Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University
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