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 |
