United Farm Workers of America (UFW)

United Farm Workers of America (U.F.W. Logo image)


The United Farm Workers of America is the most influential farm-labor union in America. Founded in southern California, in the small San Joaquin Valley agricultural town of Delano in 1962, and led by Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta and others, the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) has ceaselessly battled some of the most powerful forces in the agribusiness industry in an attempt to organize farm laborers, raise wages and improve working conditions. Currently Arturo Rodriquez, Chavez’s son-in-law, a union veteran and boycott organizer, heads the UFW and continues to work to organize farm workers.

The UFW quick link returns all content that has been tagged UFW, which currently contains collection abstracts and images. Please note the pager at the bottom of this page. Your main contact at the Reuther is Kathy Schmeling – Reuther's Associate Director and United Farm Workers Archivist (UFW) .

For additional information about UFW please visit the United Farm Workers of America Web site.
( 291) A picketer being arrested by Kern County sheriff’s deputiesImage
(292) Jerry Brown, Cesar Chavez, La Paz, Keene, California, 1976Image
(293) Governor Jerry Brown addresses supporters of the United Farm WorkersImage
(303) Supporters of the Grape Boycott march through TorontoImage
(319) Andy Imutan, Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and Robert KennedyImage
(319) Sen. Robert Kennedy, Larry Itliong, Dolores Huerta, and Andy Imutan, Delano, CaliforniaImage
(320) Senator Robert Kennedy and Dolores HuertaImage
(324) The funeral procession of Nagi DaifullahImage
(325) Mourners with the casket of Nagi Daifullah, 1973Image
(326) Arab mourners carry the casket of Nagi Daifullah enroute to his funrealImage
(328) The funeral of Rufino ContrereasImage
(329) Procession enroute to the funeral of Rufino ContrereaImage
(330) Community Service Organization (CSO), members, California Image
(333) Female farm workers in the fieldImage
(334) A female farm worker holding a flagImage
(335) A female farm worker in the fieldImage
(336) A scene from the San Luis strike, 1974Image
(337) A farm worker stacks crates of harvested grapesImage
(338) An open-air school for migrant farm worker's childrenImage
(339) Children harvest strawberriesImage
(340) Farm workers harvesting crops in a fieldImage
(342) Children work alongside adults in the fieldsImage
(343) President Clinton presents Helen Chavez with the Presidential Medal of FreedomImage
(363) Walter Reuther speaks to striking farm workers, circa 1960Image
(1323) Cayento Esquival injured during the Coachella StrikeImage
(3168) Demostrations, Cesar Chavez, Imprisonment, Salinas, California, 1970Image
(3169) Vigil held on behalf of an imprisoned farm workerImage
(3170) Arrests, Religious Ceremonies, 1970s.Image
(3171) Arrests, Delano City Council, "Delano 29", 1973Image
(3172) Arrests, Demonstrations, Shop-Rite, Brooklyn, New York, 1970sImage
(3174) Field workers are released from jailImage
(3175) Sister Jean is arrested during a UFW demonstrationImage
(3176) A group of UFW demonstratorsImage
(3177) Workers in front of a field office damaged by arson, location unknown, 1970sImage
(3179) An Anti-Teamster demonstration in Los AngelesImage
(3180) UFW demonstration during the InterHarvest StrikeImage
(3181) Protesters march to the Salinas CourthouseImage
(3182) D'Arrigo, Boycotts, New York, 1973Image
(3183) Elections, Demonstrations, 1973Image
(3185) UFW Demonstration in Keane, California, 1973Image
(3186) Demonstrations, 1973Image
(3187) Demonstrations, Grape Field, 1973Image
(3188) Demonstrations, 1973Image
(3189) A demonstrator holds a sign that reads "HUELGA UFW”Image
(3190) Protesters march for the United Farm Workers (UFW)Image
(3191) Pro-UFW sentiment is carved into a tree, 1972Image
(3192) A scene from the Kovacevitch picket lineImage
(3193) Demonstrations, Proposition 22, 1973Image
(3194) Demonstrations, Shell Oil, 1973Image
(3195) Demonstrations, Big Star, 1973Image
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