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Title
Police video picketing action during lettuce thinning
Creator
Manuel Echavarria (photographer)
Contributing Institution
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Collection
Central Coast Farm Labor Organizing Collection
Rights Information
Notice regarding copyright of materials available online: http://lib.calpoly.edu/support/policies/sca-policies/copyright-guidelines/#online-copyright
Description
Police video picketing action during lettuce thinning. Echavarria recalls how Roy Miname, son of grower Yataro Minami, gave him a karate chop to the neck after he had walked onto one of his fields to get workers to walk off their jobs. Echavarria said the Minamis filed trespassing charges against him, and made the charges stick. The incident was one of many in which UAW members committed civil disobedience to challenge laws that denied them access to the work place, a right long enjoyed by other industrial workers.
Type
image
Format
Photographic print
Identifier
098-1-a-01-00-26
https://digital.lib.calpoly.edu/rekl-11833
Place
California
United States
Source
Central Coast Farm Labor Organizing Collection--MS 098--http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3g50363t/

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