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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.

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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Newspaper clipping, preserved in the papers of Mary Terronez, the mother of John Terronez, undated (ca. 1969).

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In "!Boicoteo!: Rayo de Esperanza para el Campesino," Ernest Rodriguez connects the farm worker movement for justice led by Cesar Chavez with the struggle to improve the rights of migrant workers employed in Iowa agribusiness.

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Chronology of Ernest Rodriguez's activism, 1950s to 1990
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