National Farm Worker Ministry (U.S.)

Michigan Farm Worker Ministry Coalition Photographs and Audio-Visual and Other Materials

drice — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 17:09:18 -0400

The Michigan Farm Worker Ministry Coalition, active from 1978 through the 1990s, worked to assist farm workers’ organizing efforts and to improve their access to health care and education. This collection consists of photographs documenting their activities and the activities of related organizations, as well as audio recordings, posters, banners, and other ephemera.

National Farm Worker Ministry: Florida Office Records

kschmeling — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:50:43 -0400

The National Farm Worker Ministry (NFWM)—original name Migrant Ministry— has been administering to the nation’s farm workers since the 1920’s. It originally operated in southeastern United States and by the early 1940s expanded to aid migrant workers in fifteen states. It was during the strikes and boycotts of the 1960s and 1970s initiated by Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) that brought the California Migrant Ministry and other state migrant ministries to form a national organization to better assist the UFW cause. The Florida office supported the UFW from the early years of the boycott campaigns.

The files of the NFWM Florida office consist of documents relating to a number of UFW strikes and boycotts of the 1970s and 1980s as well as correspondence, organizing and fundraising reports from member migrant support organizations.

Orange County Interfaith Committee to Aid the Farm Workers Records

drice — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:01:52 -0400

The Orange County Interfaith Committee to Aid Farm Workers was a branch of the National Farm Workers Ministry. NFWM began in 1920 as a ministry of charity and service, providing food, clothing and day care to the farm workers. When United Farm Workers founder César Chávez began organizing in the 1960's, he called on the religious community to change its emphasis from charity to justice. NFWM became the vehicle for people of faith to respond to that call.

The collection consists of newspaper clippings and pamphlets detailing the struggles of the UFW during much of the 1980s.

UFW Publications

kschmeling — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 14:29:30 -0500

UFW Publications is primarily comprised of serials and unique publications created by, or collected by the United Farm Workers of America, the National Farm Worker Ministry and support organizations, which assisted the UFW with its cause. Included in the collection are convention proceedings dating back to the official inception of the UFW, constitutions, bylaws and serials.

UFW Publications is an artificial collection, its contents have been pulled from other UFW collections and UFW related collections to create a single grouping of farm labor publications.

UFW Virginia Boycott Records

kschmeling — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 14:02:50 -0500

The Virginia Boycott office was set up by the United Farm Workers to handle the organization of boycotted products and/or establishments in the State of Virginia and its surrounding region. The office dealt mainly with the boycotting of stores, which sold non-union products or were involved in anti-union activities. As well, the office involved itself with other UFW interests including migrant workers, illegal aliens, pesticide control, and the lobbying for or against specific legislation being proposed at the state and federal levels.

(33937) David Wildman, National Farm Worker Ministry, NFWM/UFW Darigold protest march, Seattle, Washington, 2011

rbizonet — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 13:03:31 -0500

David Wildman, Executive Director for Human Rights and Racial Justice of the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Global Ministries and a board member of the National Farm Worker Ministry, with another marcher at a NFWM/UFW Darigold protest march in Seattle, Washington, November 2011.

Source: National Farm Worker Ministry 40th Anniversary Oral Histories.

(33938) Ed Brandt, National Farm Worker Ministry, and other marchers at a NFWM/UFW Darigold protest march, Seattle, Washington, November 2011

rbizonet — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:05:15 -0500

Ed Brandt, longtime leader in the Oregon Farm Worker Ministry, with other marchers at a NFWM/UFW Darigold protest march in Seattle, Washington, November 2011.

Source: National Farm Worker Ministry 40th Anniversary Oral Histories.

(33939) Lucy Boutte, National Farm Worker Ministry, at a NFWM/UFW Darigold protest march, Seattle, Washington, November 2011

rbizonet — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:10:51 -0500

Lucy Boutte, a Catholic lay leader and NFWM California state organizer, at a NFWM/UFW Darigold protest march in Seattle, Washington, November 2011.

Source: National Farm Worker Ministry 40th Anniversary Oral Histories.

Podcast: Speak to the Earth and it Shall Teach Thee: Catholic Nuns, the United Farm Workers Movement, and the Rise of an Environmental Ethic, 1962-1978

teller — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 15:25:22 -0400

John Buchkoski explores the role that religious women had in grassroots social activism in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly organizations of Catholic women religious. He explains how these groups supported United Farm Worker strikes by publicizing the environmental and health effects of pesticide use and popularizing produce boycotts across Catholic communities. Buchkoski is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oklahoma. read more »

[Podcast] Hidden in the Fields: Invisible Agricultural Child Labor in the American Southwest and the Limits of Citizenship

teller — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 11:17:54 -0500

Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez explains how labor laws helped define the modern boundaries of childhood and citizenship for both internationally and domestically migrant Latinx children working on American farms. read more »