2010.54.529

Object number:

2010.54.529

Object name:

poster; work on paper

Title:

Cesar Chavez: President, United Farm Workers speaks on the UC Berkeley Campus

Maker:

Rene Castro

Date made:

1987

Material / Technique:

Offset lithograph on paper

Dimensions:

H: 20.5 in, W: 15.5 in

Credit line:

All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.

Physical description:

poster

Content description:

Poster has a black and white drawing of Cesar Chavez speaking into a microphone in the center. The poster reads from top to bottom, "Cesar Chavez/ President, United Farm Workers/ speaks on the UC Berkeley Campus on/ -Pesticide Misuse/ - The Treatment of Farm Workers/ - The Grape Boycott/ The new film "The Wrath of Grapes" will also be shown/ Thursday, March 12 7:00 P.M. 155 Dwinelle Hall." The bottom edge has a list of sponsors.

Concepts:

Hispanic American; Grape Boycott; conference; health; pesticide

Persons:

Cesar Chavez

Organizations:

University of California, Berkeley; United Farm Workers of America

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