5. Photographs of the Strike
The photographs below show the Starr County farm workers' strike, which began in June 1966.
Workers picketing at La Casita Farms, 1966 (from the collection of Daria Vera)
A striking worker (Photograph courtesy of Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University)
A striking worker (Photograph courtesy of Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University)
SOURCES:
The United Farm Worker (UFW) Collection: Strikes; Texas; 1967; Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University
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