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1998-10-22 Quad-City Times article

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Newspaper clipping on Anthony and Florence Terronez's community service contributions

Type: Newspaper Clipping

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Henry Vargas with Cesar Chavez in 1992 when received the Pacem in Terris award for peace and freedom at St. Ambrose University, Davenport, 1992.

Davenport Mexican Americans protest discriminatory hiring practices.
Dolores Carillo Garcia interviewed by Iowa City feminists about her decision to picket the Oscar Mayer plant in August 1970.

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Article "Ain't I a Woman?" was written in August 1970 by Iowa City feminists about Mexican American women picketing the Oscar Mayer plant in Davenport, Iowa, to protest discriminatory hiring practices.

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Iowa Governor Harold Hughes (center) with former migrant workers José and Irene Guzman (right) after signing the 1967 Iowa migrant child labor law..
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