Family of sharecroppers planting strawberries

Item Description
Local Identifier
098-1-a-01-00-04
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
4
Description

A family of sharecroppers, including children, plant strawberries the old fashioned way-- with the short-handled hoe [el cortito]-- in Santa Maria Valley fields. The UFW and its supporters succeeded in banning the backbreaking tool in 1975.

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