Targeted Age: middle/high school
Targeted Time Period: one 90-minute Block
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:
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Chicano/a Movement in Washington State History Project with oral histories, timeline,documents and photos
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La Raza Comes to Campus: The new Chicano contingent and the grape boycott at the University of Washington, 1968-69 by Jeremy Simer
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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
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"Mexican American students tell opposition to grapes," UW Daily, Jan 22, 1969
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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.