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- "I sat DOWN 2 STAND Up for courage" Mug, 2013 -
- December 01, 1955
- Collections - Artifact
"I sat DOWN 2 STAND Up for courage" Mug, 2013
- "El Malcriado: The Voice of the Farm Worker," Volume VI, No. 2, January 26, 1973 -
- January 26, 1973
- Collections - Artifact
"El Malcriado: The Voice of the Farm Worker," Volume VI, No. 2, January 26, 1973
- "Rosa Parks II" Quilt by Yvonne Wells, 2006 - Rosa Parks's December 1, 1955, refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus led to such successful public action that many consider her act to be the spark that ignited the Civil Rights movement. Yvonne Wells, a self-taught artist and retired schoolteacher, created this pictorial quilt without using patterns or templates.
- 2006
- Collections - Artifact
"Rosa Parks II" Quilt by Yvonne Wells, 2006
Rosa Parks's December 1, 1955, refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus led to such successful public action that many consider her act to be the spark that ignited the Civil Rights movement. Yvonne Wells, a self-taught artist and retired schoolteacher, created this pictorial quilt without using patterns or templates.
- Button, "Help Farmworkers: Boycott Non-Union Lettuce," 1970-1975 - The American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s inspired other groups of people to demand basic rights. In 1962, Cesar Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association (later known as the United Farm Workers), a union for California migrant workers. In 1970, building upon the recent success of a grape boycott, Chavez called for a nationwide boycott of non-union lettuce.
- 1970-1975
- Collections - Artifact
Button, "Help Farmworkers: Boycott Non-Union Lettuce," 1970-1975
The American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s inspired other groups of people to demand basic rights. In 1962, Cesar Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association (later known as the United Farm Workers), a union for California migrant workers. In 1970, building upon the recent success of a grape boycott, Chavez called for a nationwide boycott of non-union lettuce.
- "El Malcriado: The Voice of the Farm Worker," Volume VIII, No. 1, January-February 1975 -
- January 1975-February 1975
- Collections - Artifact
"El Malcriado: The Voice of the Farm Worker," Volume VIII, No. 1, January-February 1975