UFW supporters and organizers known as 'The Santa Maria Ten'

In March 1972, la causa came to Guadalupe. UFW supporters and organizers, otherwise known as the Santa Maria Ten, were charged with disrupting a public meeting in the towns grammar school. Witnesses testified that the 300 community members in attendance had in fact booed a member of the ultra-rightist John Birch Society incited by the Parent-Teachers Club to lecture against the UFW. A U.S. Commission on Civil Rights report concluded that the charges, most of which were dropped, illustrated a pattern of reprisals taken against Mexican-American UFW activists who spoke out against racist school officials. Starting from left to right in the first row, is Margarita Cabello, Juanita Estorga, Carmen Magana, Maria Manriques Cota Vaca, Jesus Ortiz. Starting from left to right in the second row, Angel Fierro, Sammy Gonzalez, Fermin Sepulveda, and Manuel Echavarria, the only one who served jail time.