Caption: The Donna High School Redskins State AA Champions 1961
Tags:championship teamspecial collections, archives, LRGV history, borderlands, US-Mexico history Donna High Schoolspecial collections, archives, LRGV history, borderlands, US-Mexico history football
A newspaper clipping from El Cuhamil, announcing the beginning of a melon strike. The Texas Farm Worker's Union started the strike in a rally May 16, 1976.
Tags:civil rightsspecial collections, archives, LRGV history, borderlands, US-Mexico history El Cuhamilspecial collections, archives, LRGV history, borderlands, US-Mexico history laborspecial collections, archives, LRGV history, borderlands, US-Mexico history labor rightsspecial collections, archives, LRGV history, borderlands, US-Mexico history melonspecial collections, archives, LRGV history, borderlands, US-Mexico history primary sourcespecial collections, archives, LRGV history, borderlands, US-Mexico history Starr Countyspecial collections, archives, LRGV history, borderlands, US-Mexico history strike
A newspaper clip by the Texas Farm Workers' Union urges the farmers to keep the citrus strike despite the threats they receive. Some of the threats mentioned are "threats of death, shooting and flimsy complaints."
The Texas Farm Workers' Union organized a 40 day pilgrimage to Austin, Texas. The participants took a demand to the state legislature for collective bargain and secret ballot elections.