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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Melon Strike Begins]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Strikes]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Rio Grande Valley]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Starr County, Texas]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Chicano movement]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Melon Strike]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Texas Farm Workers Union]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Mexican Americans]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A newspaper clipping from <em>El Cuhamil</em>, announcing the beginning of a melon strike. The Texas Farm Worker's Union started the strike in a rally May 16, 1976.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and University Archives]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[El Cuhamil (San Juan, TX)]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1976-05-20]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:relation><![CDATA[<a href="https://utrgv.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991007787899704696&amp;context=L&amp;vid=01UT_RGV_INST:UTRGV&amp;search_scope=Search_All&amp;tab=Search_All&amp;lang=en">El Cuhamil Record</a>]]></dcterms:relation>
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    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Text]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[COE-MELONSTRIKES-MelonStrikeBegins]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[&quot;Melon Strike Begins.&quot; El Cuhamil, May 20, 1975.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Starr County, Texas]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Rio Grande City, Texas]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.utrgv.edu/items/show/179">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[American Farm Bureau Federation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Strikes and lockouts]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Rio Grande Valley, Texas]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Chicano movement]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Agriculture and politics]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Mexican Americans]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Texas Farm Workers Union]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Boycotts]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Grapes--Harvesting]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Jack Angell writes to Charlie Rankin telling him what could happen to the agricultural industry if the grape strike continues.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Jack Angell]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and University Archives]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1968-10-11]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1968]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[University of Texas Rio Grande Valley]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Paul Henggeler Collection; letter to address grape strike, 1967. ELIBR0152, Box 1, Folder 2, American Farm Bureau Federation, 1967. University Library, Special Collections &amp; University Archives, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, Texas. ]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[PDF]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Text]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[GRAPESTRIKE-AmericanFarmBooklet-19681011-001]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Edinburg, Texas]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Rio Grande Valley]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.utrgv.edu/items/show/1657">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[La Casita Farms (1966)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Labor]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Civil rights]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Strikes and lockouts]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In 1966 a bitter dispute between farmworkers and owners of La Casita Farms, El Texano Ranch, and Griffen &amp; Brand farms took place in Starr County. Farmworkers harvesting melons demanded minimum wage and improved working conditions. Their strike culminated in “La Marcha,” or the march of farmworkers and organizers from Rio Grande City to the state capital in Austin, Texas.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1966]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Rio Grande City, Texas]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Roma, Texas]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Starr County, Texas]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Austin, Texas]]></dcterms:coverage>
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