Timeline
Discussion Questions
Digital Resources
Discussion Questions
- How can memorabilia/physical materials contribute to forming community around a movement?
- What were the conditions that made farm workers discontent enough to form a union?
- Why do you think there wasn’t a unified farm workers union prior to the 1960s?
- How have race and racial divisions been historically factored into labor movement organizing?
- Why do you think Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers movement are remembered so positively?
- How do you think anti-communist ideology impacted the views of the US government when addressing farm worker activism and grievances?
- How did the need for unity between different ethnic groups impact the way Luisa Moreno organized her community during the Cigar Makers labor movement?
- How do the different pieces of art across all of the primary sources included show an emphasis on including Latino/Latino-American culture in labor activism?
- Why do you think the Coors boycott was so long-lasting?
- What biases are shown throughout the included primary sources?
Digital Resources
Abbott, Franky. The United Farm Workers and the Delano Grape Strike. 2016. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/the-united-farm-workers-and-the-delano-grape-strike. (Accessed December 13, 2022.). Provides more primary sources from both the Bracero Program as well as the farm worker’s movement
Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964 / Cosecha Amarga Cosecha Dulce: El programa Bracero 1942-1964. Retrieved from National Museum of American History, https://americanhistory.si.edu/bracero/introduction. (Accessed December 13, 2022). This is the digital version of a Smithsonian exhibit on the Bracero program.
Kim, Inga. The Rise of the UFW. 2017. Retrieved from the United Farm Workers website, https://ufw.org/the-rise-of-the-ufw/. (Accessed December 13, 2022). This is a good overview of how the UFW was formed and represents the perspective of the organization on the subject.
Pao, Maureen. Cesar Chavez: The Life Behind A Legacy Of Farm Labor Rights. 2016. Retrieved from National Public Radio, https://www.npr.org/2016/08/02/488428577/cesar-chavez-the-life-behind-a-legacy-of-farm-labor-rights. (Accessed December 13, 2022). This is an NPR article that offers a good summary of Cesar Chavez’s life as well as a timeline.
Jon Lewis Photographs from the United Farm Workers Movement. Retrieved from Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/jon-lewis-photographs-united-farm-workers-movement. (Accessed December 13, 2022). This is a collection of photographs taken by Jon Lewis. These offer a more visual way of looking at the United Farm Workers and the farmworkers movement.