1933 Pixely Cotton Strike
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0 776.jpg |
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Title |
1933 Pixely Cotton Strike |
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Creator |
Farm Security Administration |
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Date |
1933 |
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Description |
An overview of camp of evicted cotton strikers. The Circo Azteca stage is to left. This is the group that, in part, inspired Steinbeck to write Of Mice and Men as a play so that everyday workers would have access to his work. Corcoranis a town in Tulare County, California. In 1933, Pixley was one of the towns in California involved in the San Joaquin cotton strike, a labor action by agricultural workers seeking higher wages. A violent clash between strikers and growers left two workers dead and eight wounded. Five thousand workers gathered in Tulare for the dead strikers' funerals, one of the largest agricultural demonstrations in California's history. Eight cotton growers were indicted in the violence against the workers, but were later acquitted. |
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Subject-TGM |
Agricultural laborers
Cotton pickers
Strikes
Camps |
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Geographic Coverage |
Corcoran -- California |
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Object Type |
photographic prints |
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Image/jpg |
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Relation-Is Part Of |
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library |
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Rights |
For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies. |
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Collection |
Steinbeck Center Photo Archive |
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Repository |
Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, SJSU |
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Note |
Acquired from Jackson Benson; Published in journal: SS 15.2 (2004): 98-99; SR 13.2 (2016) |
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