Hispanic Americans–Civil rights.

  • An interview with Cesar Chavez

    Alexander Hoffmann, an attorney who worked with the Delano Grape Strike, talks with the leader of the strike, Cesar Chavez, at his offices in Delano on July 11,1970.

  • April 22nd Coalition press conference

    This is a recording of a press conference during which various community members from the Bay Area give statements opposing the Vietnam War and specifically the bombing of Hanoi on April 16, 1972, and then give information about the demonstration being held the next day, April 22, 1972, at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. Larry…

  • An interview with Cesar Chavez by Raul Torres

    An exclusive interview with the leader of the United Farm Workers’ Organizing Committee, conducted by Raul Torres, a Chicano community organizer in the San Francisco Bay Area and producer of “Reflecciones de la Raza” on KPFA.

  • Women’s liberation in Mexico / Marta Acevedo ; interviewed by Elizabeth Farnsworth.

    Elizabeth Farnsworth of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) interviews Marta Acevedo, organizer of the first women’s action in Mexico on Mother’s Day in May 1971. Acevedo wrote one of the first articles on women’s liberation to appear in a Mexican periodical, Siempre. She talks about her decision to write the article, about…

  • The Delano grape strike and Cesar Chavez

    Cesar Chavez, President of the National Farm Workers Association, spoke in Berkeley under the auspices of Citizens for Farm Labor on January 5, 1966 about the progress of the Delano Grape Strike and the history of the Association. He is introduced by Henry Anderson, Chairman of Citizens for Farm Labor.

  • Reies Tijerina : leader of the Alianza

    Reies Lopez Tijerina, a Chicano leader who heads a Mexican-American movement to reclaim hereditary land grants confiscated by the United States government, talks with Elsa Knight Thompson. The group Tijerina heads is called Federal Alliance of Free City-States, more commonly known as the North New Mexico six-county land grant movement. The program was recorded Friday…

  • Lettuce strike

    At the beginning of January, the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and United Packinghouse Workers launched an organizational drive in the Imperial Valley lettuce harvest. Late in February, the University of California Student Committee for Agricultural Labor held a rally for the Imperial Valley Lettuce strikers. The rally began with folk songs, and a showing of…

  • The irresistible force and the immovable object

    A panel discusses attempts to organize California farm workers, grower-labor relations, and the living conditions of agricultural migrant workers in California. Participants are John Zuckerman, a grower with large holdings in the Central Valley; Father Thomas McCullough, a Catholic priest assigned to social service work with farm laborers in the Stockton area; Franz Daniel, AFL-CIO…