Mexicali workers and Santa Maria UFW supporters en route to a UFW strike near Yuma, Arizona, 1972

Item Description
Local Identifier
098-1-a-01-00-12
Member of
Central Coast Farm Labor Organizing Collection
Collection Number
MS0098
Finding Aid URI
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3g50363t/
Series
Preservation Prints By Photographer Manuel Echavarria - Preservation Prints
Linked Agent
Photographer (pht): Manuel Echavarria
Container
1
Folder
12
Date Created
1972
Description

A contingent of Mexican workers from Mexicali and UFW supporters from Santa Maria take a break while en route to a UFW strike near Yuma, Arizona sometime in 1972. Committee members in the photo also worked in Arizona as farm laborers. The bus in background was one of a fleet UFW used to shuttle supporters to the front lines.

Geographic Subject
California
United States
Original format
Photographic print
Resource Type
Still Image