Understanding Protest lesson plan

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Grape Boycott at the UW Lesson Plan
Targeted Age: middle/high school
Targeted Time Period: one 90-minute Block

created by Teresa Frizell

Objective: Students will examine and assess the tactics used by Chicano students and their allies at UW in their successful attempt to remove non-union grapes from all campus eating facilities during the United Farm Workers grape boycott of 1968-69. They will connect these activities with present-day responsible consumerism movements such as Fair Trade and sweatshop-free and assert whether and how these tactics could be used as a model for their own activism.

Teacher Material

Lesson Plan in downloadable Word format

Background information:

Chicano/a Movement in Washington State History Project with oral histories, timeline,documents and photos
La Raza Comes to Campus: The new Chicano contingent and the grape boycott at the University of Washington, 1968-69 by Jeremy Simer

Raza Si! Chicano Activism in Washington State, 1965-today a powerpoint slide show

Lesson Plan in pdf format

Lesson Plan in WORD document format

Student Material

Grape Boycott Bulletin #1

Grape Boycott Bulletin #2

Grape Boycott Bulletin #3

"Mexican American students tell opposition to grapes," UW Daily, Jan 22, 1969

Richard Sanders, "The Devil's Advocate" UW Daily, Jan 16, 1969

This project was made possible by a grant from 4Culture/King County Lodging Tax.