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To March for Others To_March_for_Others_Araiza_F1.indd 1 9/4/13 10:46 AM POLITICS AND CULTURE IN MODERN AMERICA Series Editors: Margot Canaday, Glenda Gilmore, Michael Kazin, and Thomas J. Sugrue Volumes in the series narrate and analyze political and social change in the broadest dimensions from 1865 to the present, including ideas about the ways people have sought and wielded power in the public sphere and the language and institutions of politics at all levels—local, national, and transnational. The series is motivated by a desire to reverse the fragmentation of modern U.S. history and to encourage synthetic perspectives on social movements and the state, on gender, race, and labor, and on intellectual history and popular culture. To_March_for_Others_Araiza_F1.indd 2 9/4/13 10:46 AM To March for Others The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers LAUREN ARAIZA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS PHILADELPHIA To_March_for_Others_Araiza_F1.indd 3 9/4/13 10:46 AM Copyright © 2014 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112 www.upenn.edu/pennpress Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Araiza, Lauren. To march for others : the black freedom struggle and the United Farm Workers / Lauren Araiza — 1st ed. p. cm. (Politics and culture in modern America) Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978-0-8122-4557-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Untied Farm Workers of America—History—20th century. 2. African Americans—Civil rights—History—20th century. 3. Mexican American agricultural laborers.—Civil rights—History—20th century. 4. African Americans—Relations with Mexican Americans—History—20th century. 5. Civil rights movements—United States—History—20th century. 6. United States—Race relations—History—20th century. 7. United States—Ethnic relations—History—20th century. I. Title. II. Series: Politics and culture in modern America. E185.61.A66 2014 323.1196'0730904 2013020887 To_March_for_Others_Araiza_F1.indd 4 9/4/13 10:46 AM for Charlie To_March_for_Others_Araiza_F1.indd 5 9/4/13 10:46 AM This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS List of Abbreviations ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1. This Is How a Movement Begins 11 Chapter 2. To Wage Our Own War of Liberation 42 Chapter 3. Consumers Who Understand Hunger and Joblessness 71 Chapter 4. More Mutual Respect than Ever in Our History 106 Chapter 5. A Natural Alliance of Poor People 140 Conclusion 167 Notes 173 Bibliography 195 Index 209 Acknowledgments 221 To_March_for_Others_Araiza_F1.indd 7 9/4/13 10:46 AM This page intentionally left blank ABBREVIATIONS AFL American Federation of Labor AFL-CIO A merican Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations AWOC Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO BPP Black Panther Party CIO Congress of Industrial Organizations CMM California Migrant Ministry COFO Council of Federated Organizations CORE Congress of Racial Equality CSO Community Service Organization DRUM Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission FEPC Fair Employment Practices Commission FLOC Farm Labor Organizing Committee FRUM Ford Revolutionary Union Movement IAF Industrial Areas Foundation ICWU International Chemical Workers Union ILWU International Longshore and Warehouse Union, AFL-CIO LCFO Lowndes County Freedom Organization LULAC League of United Latin American Citizens MALDEF Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund MFDP Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party MFLU Mississippi Freedom Labor Union NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NCNP National Conference for New Politics NDOC New Democratic Organizing Committee To_March_for_Others_Araiza_F1.indd 9 9/4/13 10:46 AM
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