We’re delighted to share the fourth of a multi-part series from the archives of photographer David Bacon. This part tells of a march held a year after the death of human rights and labor organizer Cesar Chavez and subsequent rebuilding of the union. Chavez, with Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong and others, co-founded the United Farm Workers.
A former union organizer, Bacon’s thirty years of photographs and writing capture the courage of people struggling for social and economic justice in countries around the world. His images are now part of Special Collections in Stanford University’s Green Library.
Book talk on California farm workers, California Historical Society, 7/9/19 at 6PM – see below
A year after Cesar died, and we had marched in his memory, I was in Delano again, this time thinking not so much about the UFW’s past as about its future. For a year his death had won some attention for farm workers from mainstream reporters. But always they saw the union as his personal creation, so their endlessly repeated question was, «Will the UFW survive the death of Chavez?»
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March/April, 1994
Photographs and text by David Bacon
The Progressive, 7/2/19
https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-social-movement-photography-of.html
https://progressive.org/dispatches/the-social-movement-photography-of-david-bacon-Peregrinos-190702/