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Davenport wins the state diversity award
1998-10-22 Quad-City Times article
Dolores Carillo (Garcia), cover page of "Ain't I A Woman?", August 1970.
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.
El Malcriado newsletter reports on Iowa support for the grape boycott.
El Malcriado, The Voice of the Farm Worker, (Delano, Calif.) 3, no. 1, (September 15-October 1, 1969), p. 13.
Henry Vargas with Cesar Chavez
Henry Vargas with Cesar Chavez in 1992 when received the Pacem in Terris award for peace and freedom at St. Ambrose University, Davenport, 1992.
Irene and Jose Guzman with Governor Harold Hughes.
Iowa Governor Harold Hughes (center) with former migrant workers José and Irene Guzman (right) after signing the 1967 Iowa migrant child labor law..
Jesse Vargas speaking to union members.
Jesse Vargas, brother of Henry Vargas and President of UAW Local 377, speaking to union members. UAW represented foundry workers in the Quad Cities, 1959.
Type: Photograph