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Research Trip to California, Part I

I’m in California for the month conducting research for my dissertation, Labor, Migration, and Activism: A History of Mexican Workers on the Oxnard Plain, 1930-1980. And plus I’m visiting my family and friends! This week, I’m in the SF bay area visiting archives and presenting at a conference. I had the opportunity to see the Fred Ross Papers and Ernesto Galarza Papers at Stanford University and NAACP Papers at the Bancroft Library at UCB. Plus, I made a stop at the SF Public Library to see the American Labor Citizen newspaper, which had photos of the Ventura County Citrus Strike of 1941!

Berkeley's Ivory Tower

And finally, I presented my new paper, The Growers Strike Back: The Bracero Program in Ventura County, 1942-1964 at Southwest Labor Studies Association at UCSC.

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Reading, Research, and Friends

In about four weeks, I will return to Michigan and the Irony Tower. Before returning, I still have to finish my field research notes and my paper on braceros in Ventura County for Dr. Dennis Valdes. I have been reading a lot about Chavez, CSO, UFW and the Bracero Program. Also, my brother Jose gave me a lead to an article on Antonio Del Buono. He was a founding member and the first president of the CSO Ventura County. Jack D. Forbes, the author of Aztecas Del Norte: The Chicanos of Aztlan, wrote this article on him. [see photograph]

Also, I found an article in the Ventura Star-Free Press linking the Ventura County Citrus Strike of 1941 to the Cesar Chavez and UFW [see photograph]

Also, about the couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet up with my friends, Jessica and Brenda from Camp Smith. I enjoyed the time and laughs!

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