5. Photographs of the March
The photographs below show the 490-mile farm workers march, which began on July 4, 1966 in Rio Grande City and ended with a Labor Day rally in Austin.
In Austin, the Mexican American farm workers from South Texas were greeted by a crowd of thousands, which included Cesar Chavez as well as African American farm workers from East Texas, who had also marched across the state.
On the march (Photograph courtesy of Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University)
On the march (Photograph courtesy of Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University)
On the march (University of Texas at Arlington Libraries)
SOURCES:
The United Farm Worker (UFW) Collection: Strikes; Texas; 1967; Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University
Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. "United Farm Worker protestors marching." UTA Libraries Digital Gallery. n.d. Accessed August 7, 2024. https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/10007784
SEE ALSO:
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, “Sons of Zapata: A Brief Photographic History of the Farm Workers Strike in Texas,” 1967, https://libraries.ucsd.edu/farmworkermovement/ufwarchives/elmalcriado/Frankel/Strike.pdf