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"Easter leaflet" promoting the boycott of Heinz tomato products and the passage of two migrant worker bills, 1969.
Led by House Representative John Tapscott, the bills sought to regulate migrant child labor and improve conditions in Iowa migrant camps.
"March in Support of Migrant Workers," Des Moines Register, March 20, 1969.
Iowa LULAC councils, labor unions, and migrant agencies marched in Des Moines to press for passage of migrant worker bills pending in the Iowa legislature. Fifteen hundred activists marched in Des Moines in March 1969. This type of collective action…
Cesar Chavez visits Iowa, 1969.
Newspaper clipping announcing Cesar Chavez will attend Quad City rally supporting the grape boycott campaign.
Chicano Educational Productions, Muscatine, Iowa
Meeting minutes, October 19, 1975
El Laberinto article about María Cano Martinez, 1984
Type: Article
Iowa LULAC Glances newsletter, November 1968
"LULAC Glances" published by the Iowa state LULAC reports on local news.
Type: Newsletter
Muscatine Community Effort Organization (CEO) news article on the boycott of Heinz, 1969.
Muscatine C.E.O. [Community Effort Organization] flier calling for a boycott of H.J. Heinz Company products to pressure Iowa growers to improve wages and working conditions for migrant farm workers in Iowa., 1969.