UFW: Peter Velasco Records

Posted February 25th, 2016 by kschmeling

Accession Number:

LR002077

Use restriction:

Researchers must indicate Part # on call slip.

Extent:

24.75 linear feet, (21 SB, 1.5 MB, 2 OS)

Peter Velasco has served in a number of positions in the UFW. He worked as the Stockton, California Field Office Director, as the director of the Strike Defense Fund, was a board member of the Farm Workers Credit Union, and the National Executive Board. He and his wife Dolores Ann also worked on the US Senate campaign of Tom Hayden in 1976. Pete Velasco died in 1995. His collection consists of office files, largely from the time when Velasco was Stockton Area Director and personal files from the early 1960s to the late 1970s.

Part 2 of this collection includes materials relating to both the United Farm Workers movement and to Peter Velasco’s life more broadly, covering the span of 1942-2000.

Date:

1942-2000

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