Image / AWOC organizing AWOC Conference, December, 1961

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Title: AWOC organizing AWOC Conference, December, 1961
Creator: Lowe, Ernest, 1934-
Date Created and/or Issued: 1961-12-02
Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
Collection: Ernest Lowe Photography Collection
Rights Information: Copyrighted
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0)
Description: Scope/Content: Maria Moreno, an AWOC organizer speaks from the floor at the 1961 organizing conference held by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee in Strathmore, California (Tulare County) Members elected her to speak at the National AFL-CIO conference where she convinced delegates to restore funds to AWOC, after the National had abandoned the campaign.
Type: image
Form/Genre: Photographs
Identifier: 6810909
Language: English
eng
Subject: Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee
Migrant agricultural laborers
Place: Stockton (city); San Joaquin (county); California; United States
37°58′32"N 121°18′03"W
Relation: Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) Conference
Provenance: Acquired from Ernest Lowe with support from the UC Merced Office of the Chancellor, 2020.

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