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United Farm Workers Connecticut - New England Region 7 collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 536 large

Scope and Contents

The collection includes newspaper and magazine clippings as well as documents from boycott support groups and organizations. They included labor, student, religious and other interest group publications and white papers covering the period of 1965-1975.

Dates

  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1965 - 1975

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Access

The material is stored offsite in Remote Storage. Please contact Special Collections 3 working days in advance if you wish to use it.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright is retained by the authors of the items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. For photocopy and duplication requests, please contact the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries.

Biographical / Historical

The Connecticut - New England farmworker support group was part of the Region 7 UFW organization. They organized house meetings, boycott actions targeting stores that purchased non-UFW grapes. A lead coordinator was John Jackson whose name is prominent on many of the included documents.

Extent

.3 Linear Feet (1 hollinger box)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

This collection includes 10 files of information gathered or distrubuted as part of the regional house and its' work.

Arrangement

The papers are arranged by general information.  

Other Finding Aids

See also a related collection "UFW Massachusetts Boycott Office: Boston Records, Part 1" at https://reuther.wayne.edu/files/LR002436.pdf

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection of papers was acquired from Bolerium Books, San Francisco California in 2005.

Processing Information

Processed by Diana Rivera December 2016.

Title
United Farm Workers Connecticut - New England Region 7 collection
Status
4 Published And Cataloged
Date
December 2016
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections Repository

Contact:
MSU Libraries
366 W. Circle Drive
East Lansing MI 48823 USA