ETHN 3120: CHICANO/A/XS IN THE UNITES STATES – FALL 2023
TITLE:
FLOC Donation Letter
MEET THE DOCUMENT:
This letter talks about unionizing farmworkers in the Midwest of the United States. It also talks about the many strikes going on. It talks about the campaigns going on. Finally, it talks about farmworkers organizing together.
OBSERVE ITS PARTS:
Ray Santiago, Floc Labor organizing committee to Errol Lam, October 10, 1978.
TRY TO MAKE SENSE OF IT:
It is talking about the efforts to unionize farmworkers in the Midwest. He wrote it to get the word of what was going on out. Farmworkers throughout the country were organizing for better conditions and labor rights.
USE IT AS HISTORICAL EVIDENCE:
That farmworkers were struggling in the Midwest and the rest of the United States is what I found surprising and had not seen before.