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Migrant labor -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

CITA records

 Collection
Identifier: 8532
Abstract

Reports, Board of Directors records, subject files, audits, photographs, DVDs and CDs documenting CITA.

Dates: 1991-2012.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / CITA records

Cornell Migrant Program campus collection

 Collection
Identifier: 23-13-3582
Abstract

Includes correspondence, reports, research studies, publicity, slides, tapes, 40 oral histories (conducted by Neil Schwartzbach of the Community and Rural Development Institute), and subject files documenting the Cornell campus migrant program and other farmworker-oriented organizations, not generally available from other sources.

Dates: 1953-2007.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell Migrant Program campus collection

Cornell Migrant Program records

 Collection — Box 45: [Barcode: 31924093405888]
Identifier: 23-13-3160
Abstract In 1979 the program was transferred to the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and renamed the Cornell Migrant Program. Engman became the director and Kay Embrey became the Wayne County office director in 1980. Kathy (Fox) Castania was hired in 1981 and she and Embrey founded the Wayne Action for Racial Equality. For the first years of the program all funding was provided by the College of Agriculture and Cornell Cooperative Extension. By the mid 1970's, grant money was being...
Dates: 1953-2005.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell Migrant Program records

National Consumers League Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5235
Abstract

Records document the League's research and lobbying activities for federal and state legislation and various social action programs. Consist of routine business records, published and unpublished reports, correspondence, and research documents pertaining to equal pay, equal rights, minimum wage, child labor, women workers, migrant workers, and fair labor standards.

Dates: 1897-1959
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / National Consumers League Records

Southern Tenant Farmers Union Records on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5204 mf
Abstract Consist of correspondence, reports, ledgers, legal documents, leaflets, printed material, photographs, and newspapers published by the union. These document the activities of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union from its origins through its transformations into the National Farm Labor Union in 1946 and the National Agriculture Workers Union in 1952, and through its merger with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union in 1960. The records also contain selected materials from the Socialist Party...
Dates: 1932-1971
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / Southern Tenant Farmers Union Records on Microfilm

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