Unforgettable Change: 1960s: Cesar Chavez Organizes the United Farm Workers
Click image to zoom in.Or view larger version. Three Latino male farm-workers in a lettuce field. August 17, 1963. Unknown photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of Alameda Newspaper Group.
This is a photograph of three farm workers, working in a lettuce field in Salinas, California in August, 1963. The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), later renamed the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), was formed in August 1963. The UFWOC was established when two smaller organizations, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), both in the middle of strikes against certain California grape growers, merged and moved under the umbrella of the AFL-CIO.