Cesar Chavez, leader of the Delano grape pickers' strike, waves to the crowd from the steps of the California Capitol in Sacramento. Chavez led his strikers and sympathizers on an over 300-mile, 25-day pilgrimage from Delano to the capitol in an attempt to meet with Governor Brown on Easter Sunday, Sacramento, California.

Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) was an American labor leader and Civil Rights activist. He and Dolores Huerta co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW) in 1962. Originally a Mexican-American farm worker, Chavez became the best known Latino American Civil Rights activist. He was strongly promoted by the American labor movement, which was eager to enroll Hispanic members. Chavez' public-relations approach to unionism and aggressive but nonviolent tactics made the farm workers' struggle a moral cause with nationwide support. By the late 1970s, his efforts had forced growers to recognize the UFW as the bargaining agent for 50,000 field workers in California and Florida.

Associated Press ID #17090630703839

On verso: manuscript title and newspaper caption with date stamp affixed.

Wire photographs were originally transmitted over phonelines, then later, by satellite. They were first used in the early 1920s. Associated Press became a leader with this. After pigment touch-ups, etc., the print is put into a drum (like a drum scanner). The image gets converted into audio tones that are transmitted. The tones are received and beamed onto photo-sensitive paper. Wire photographs are copies without originals---they are hybrid, transmitted objects. (Britt Salvesen, Curator and Department Head, Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 30-31, 2022)

image: 8 5/8 x 7
sheet" 9 1/16 x 7 15/16

This object has the following keywords:

• California Capitol
• Cesar Chavez
• Cesar Chavez
• Civil Rights Movements
• Crowds
• Delano
• Easter
• Farmworkers
• Grapes
• Injustice
• Marches
• Pat Brown
• Racial Discrimination
• Sacramento
• Strikes
• United Farm Workers

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• Christina Fernandez: Under the Sun Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College , 8/24/2022 - 12/18/2022

• Image Dimensions: 8 5/8 x 7 in. (21.91 x 17.78 cm)

This object is a member of the following portfolios: