Farmworkers and Grape Boycott
News Coverage
Chicano activists made news as well as history. Here is a month-by-month digital archive of more than 250 articles published in the UW Daily and other local newspapers between 1968 and 1979 (click the titles to read the articles).
Michael Schulze-Oechtering Castañeda created this database with help from Edgar Flores, Francesca Barajas, Chris Paredes, and Oscar Rosales Castañeda. These articles are courtesy of the UW Daily, Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Year |
Publication |
Article |
9-May-68 |
Daily |
"Los Amigos" sponsor migrant labor group |
7-Aug-68 |
Daily |
UW law students research migrant cases |
10-Jan-69 |
Daily |
Grape growers, boycott supporters to clash |
14-Jan-69 |
Daily |
Grape growers clash with boycott leaders over wages, strikes |
16-Jan-69 |
Daily |
Devil's Advocate (to boycott) |
17-Jan-69 |
Daily |
Protest flares over grapes on HUB lawn |
21-Jan-69 |
Daily |
Student Assembly to vote on grapes |
21-Jan-69 |
Daily |
Group grapples over grapes |
22-Jan-69 |
Daily |
Mexican-Americans tell opposition to grapes |
23-Jan-69 |
Daily |
HUB advisory board heres grape hassle |
23-Jan-69 |
Daily |
Student assembly, grape strike supported |
28-Jan-69 |
Daily |
Administration rules free grape sales |
29-Jan-69 |
Daily |
Opinion (on picketing) |
29-Jan-69 |
Daily |
Grape picket line planned |
30-Jan-69 |
Daily |
HUB sales down in boycott |
31-Jan-69 |
Daily |
BOC hits administration for HUB grape decision |
31-Jan-69 |
Daily |
HUB sales still fall lower |
5-Feb-69 |
Daily |
Boycotters ask decision from president Odegaard |
6-Feb-69 |
Daily |
HUB board recommends stoppage of grape sales |
7-Feb-69 |
Daily |
Odegaard: Individual grape decision favored |
11-Feb-69 |
Daily |
Boycott enters statistical phase, moratorium set |
14-Feb-69 |
Daily |
Safeway boycott aim |
25-Feb-69 |
Daily |
SDS ejects United Fruit Rep. |
4-Apr-69 |
Daily |
Boycotters begin campaign against safeway grapes |
8-Apr-69 |
Daily |
Hearings resume today regarding SDS officer |
8-Apr-69 |
Daily |
Hearings resume today regarding SDS officer (cont.) |
2-May-69 |
Daily |
An executive's defense of United Fruit |
8-May-69 |
Daily |
UFW to continue protest |
9-May-69 |
Daily |
"Boycott day" to target safeway |
13-May-69 |
Daily |
Grape boycotters 80 strong at safeway |
30-Sep-69 |
Daily |
Grape boycott will continue |
8-Oct-69 |
Daily |
Boycotters stage march on U Villiage QFC |
14-Oct-69 |
Daily |
Boycotters march to QFC |
17-Oct-69 |
Daily |
Managers face boycotters |
24-Oct-69 |
Daily |
Anti-grape campaign not dead |
28-Oct-69 |
Daily |
Boycott hits three stores |
21-Nov-69 |
Daily |
Conservative Analysis: Grape gripe |
3-Dec-69 |
Daily |
Cesar Chavez here Dec. 19 |
9-Dec-69 |
Daily |
Farmworkers suffer from pesticides |
10-Dec-69 |
Daily |
Chavez - Dec. 19 |
20-Jan-70 |
Daily |
MEChA, campus and community involvement |
20-Feb-70 |
Daily |
Grape Boycott Conspiracy |
20-Feb-70 |
Daily |
Grape Boycott Conspiracy (cont.) |
24-Apr-70 |
Daily |
Today in HUB Delano Story told |
28-May-70 |
Daily |
Grape Boycotters want U to Fast |
19-Nov-70 |
Daily |
UFW union to picket Dow Co. |
2-Dec |
Daily |
UFW gets small audience |
5-Mar-71 |
Daily |
Oppression of female farm workers |
11-May-71 |
Daily |
UFW in Yakima Valley |
11-May-71 |
Daily |
Dorms vote on lettuce today |
4-May-72 |
Daily |
MEChA opens boycott on rainer bottling company |
9-May-72 |
Daily |
Farmworkers win - boycott injunction killed |
9-May-72 |
Daily |
UFWOC in the Yakima Valley |
5-Jan-73 |
Daily |
El Centro Lettuce Boycott Effort Starts |
1-May-73 |
Daily |
Farmworkers, struggle for self-detirmination |
3-May-73 |
Daily |
Farm worker plans poetry reading at ethnic theater |
29-Nov-73 |
Daily |
Down on Boone's Farm: a Gallo labor strike |
7-Dec-73 |
Daily |
The Grapes of Wrath '73 |
21-Feb-74 |
Daily |
UFW sympathizers to picket at UW |
15-Mar-74 |
Daily |
UFW organizers awaits UW's lettuce policy |
9-May-74 |
Daily |
Cesar Chavez comes to campus |
15-May-74 |
Daily |
Cesar Chavez, no violence is real power |
16-May-74 |
Daily |
Chavez does not represent farmworkers, HUB audience told |
16-May-74 |
Daily |
Analysis: Mendoza, UFW contradictions |
8-Aug-74 |
Daily |
UFW boycotts QFC |
5-Dec-74 |
Daily |
The UFW |
5-Dec-74 |
Daily |
Cesar Chavez |
5-Dec-74 |
Daily |
A significant summer for farmworkers struggling in a union that is not dead |
30-May-75 |
Daily |
UFW boycott still on |
8-Oct-75 |
Daily |
UFW, teamsters trade accusations |
29-Oct-75 |
Daily |
UFW leader speaks on elections |
31-Oct-75 |
Daily |
UFW organizer urges boycott to equalize elections |
6-May-76 |
Daily |
Priest, UFW organizer push farm/worker rights |