eBook

To March for Others

Araiza, Lauren

2013,2014

Overview

In 1966, members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an African American civil rights group with Southern roots, joined Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers union on its 250-mile march from Delano to Sacramento, California, to protest the exploitation of agricultural workers. SNCC was not the only black organization to support the UFW: later on, the NAACP, the National Urban League, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Black Panther Party backed UFW strikes and boycotts against California agribusiness throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. To March for Othersexplores the reasons why black activists, who were committed to their own fight for equality during this period, crossed racial, socioeconomic, geographic, and ideological divides to align themselves with a union of predominantly Mexican American farm workers in rural California. Lauren Araiza considers the history, ideology, and political engagement of these five civil rights organizations, representing a broad spectrum of African American activism, and compares their attitudes and approaches to multiracial coalitions. Through their various relationships with the UFW, Araiza examines the dynamics of race, class, labor, and politics in twentieth-century freedom movements. The lessons in this eloquent and provocative study apply to a broader understanding of political and ethnic coalition building in the contemporary United States.

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc,University of Pennsylvania Press
• Subject: 20th Century / African Americans / African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century / African Americans -- Relations with Mexican Americans -- History -- 20th century / African Studies / African-American Studies / American History / American Studies / Civil rights / Civil rights movements / Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century / Ethnic relations / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies / HISTORY / HISTORY / World / Mexican American agricultural laborers / Mexican American agricultural laborers -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century / Political Science / Public Policy / Race relations / Relations with Mexican Americans / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General / United Farm Workers of America -- History -- 20th century / United States / United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century / United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century / Untied Farm Workers of America
• ISBN: 9780812245578, 0812245571, 9780812208832, 0812208838