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These photos were taken in 1966 by a UCLA student, Ron Javor, who had been coming to Delano on his free days to help out with the Delano Grape Strike. He volunteered in the office, in the kitchen, ran errands, swept floors, etc. - whatever needed to be done. Ron Javor volunteered and participated in the March to Sacramento and took some photos along the route, but after these many years, only these nine remain.
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Ron Javor does not remember the name of the town where these photos were shot, but the Barrera family from Porterville - participants in the March and present in these photos - have examined the photos and using the internal evidence in them, have decided the town was Lindsay, CA. These March to Sacramento photos have great historical value, and the Farmworker Movement Documentation Project is grateful to Mr. Javor for making them available to our viewers.
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Ron Javor writes: "The best thing about my NFWA/UFW involvement was opening the eyes of a New York-born, LA-raised middle-class kid. I ended up organizing a UCLA-sponsored and funded summer school program in the Arvin Labor Camp ('Grapes of Wrath') in 1966, and another in 1967 for farmworker children in the Oxnard Colonia, when the only summer schools open were across the highway and unaccessible. In 1969, I did an expose of the farm labor camp condition in Fort Wayne (Allen County) Indiana."
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ROBERTO BUSTOS WAS THE CAPTAIN OF THE MARCH TO SACRAMENTO 1966Ron Javor writes: "I spent most of a year in Visalia, building houses for farmworker households with Self-Help Enterprises in 1970-1971 before going to law school. Since I came to Sacramento with California Housing and Community Development, I have done a lot of work ensuring that our Farmworker Housing Funds get spent properly, as well as getting as much state money to rural California as possible."
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STUDENTS OF THE DELANO GRAPE STRIKE WIILL OFTEN SEE MR.KING IN PHOTOGRAPHS. HERE HE IS SHOWN USING HIS WALKING STICK. Ron Javor writes: "I don't remember a whole lot about my NFWA/UFW days, except cooking, driving, typing, and occasionally handling the microphone in the house when nobody else was there, and with little Spanish . . .but the movement had a positive on-going impact on me."
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THE BARRERA BROTHERS FROM PORTERVILLE WERE STRIKERS - AND MUSICIANS. THEY MARCHED, THEY PLAYED, THEY ENTERTAINED.
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WHEN IS THE LAST TIME YOU SAW A "FLYING A" GAS STATION? A VERITABLE RELIC FROM THE AMERICAN RURAL PAST.
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LOCAL FARMWORKER RESIDENTS JOINED THE MARCH WHEN IT CAME INTO THEIR TOWNS AND RURAL AREAS
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CESAR CHAVEZ WAS PLAGUED WITH BLISTERS DURING THE MARCH TO SACRAMENTO AND SUFFERED GREATLY - PART OF HIS PENITENCIA, IT SEEMED.
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