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Title	United Farm Worker strikers
Description	Several men, women, and children are seen striking by the edge of a field as a man holds a sign reading "HUELGA" (strike), in this photograph from the Max Mont Collection. Mont was West Coast Executive Director of the Jewish Labor Committee (JLC) which serves as a representative body for working persons from the Jewish community by promoting human rights and assisting organized labor in its relations within the community and other minority groups. A major issue in which Max Mont and the Jewish Labor Committee became active was the plight of California farm workers. Between 1961 and 1968, Mont served as Secretary of the Emergency Committee to Aid Farm Workers, an activist group which successfully lobbied for the discontinuance of the Bracero or foreign farm labor program under Public Law 78, which operated three federally funded antipoverty projects that provided counseling, basic educational skills and training to domestic farm workers. 8 in. x 10 in.
Subject	Agricultural laborers Emergency Committee to Aid Farm Workers (Calif.) Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.) Mont, Max, 1917- Seasonal Farm Laborers Program United Farm Workers
Keywords	Huelga; Bracero
Donors and Others	Mont, Max, 1917-
Media	Black-and-white photograph
Media Measurement	20.3 cm. x 25.4 cm.
Identifier	mm001.jpg
Language	spa
Type	image
Format	image/jpeg
Repository Name	California State University, Northridge. Oviatt Library. Urban Archives Center
Collection	Max Mont Collection
Repository Number	82-14, Box MM Photographs
Call Number	CD988 W441 1941b
Finding Aid	complete
Rights	Educational uses permitted under Copyright fair use. Written permission for publication and commercial uses must be granted by the Oviatt Library, Urban Archives Center. http://library.csun.edu/Collections/SCA/UAC
Project Name	Latino Cultural Heritage Digital Archives
Data Digitized	2005-02-11
Publisher	California State University, Northridge. Oviatt Library

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