Latinx Labor History UFW Benefit Poster with Emiliano Zapata, 1970s

United Farm Workers

Broadside

Industrial Workers of the World. United Farm Workers benefit concert and dinner poster, 1970s, documents grassroots labor-solidarity fundraising for the UFW in Madison, Wisconsin, showing how farmworker organizing circulated through radical union networks, Catholic social-justice spaces, and youth music culture beyond California. The poster supports research into Chicano and Latinx labor activism, Midwest solidarity organizing, and the mechanisms by which the UFW cause gained national support after the Delano grape strike ended in 1970.

United Farm Workers benefit concert and dinner poster. Industrial Workers of the World. Madison, Wisconsin: Industrial Workers of the World, 1970s. 17" x 11". Red and black poster advertising a benefit concert and dinner for the United Farm Workers at St. Martin House, featuring the Irish Brigade and a detailed illustration of Emiliano Zapata. The use of Zapata links the farmworker struggle to Mexican revolutionary iconography, while the Madison venue places the event within a Catholic hospitality setting founded to foster interracial understanding.

The 1970s were a contested period for the UFW, following the Delano grape strike and marked by conflict with the Teamsters over farmworker representation. This poster reveals how supporters outside agricultural regions used concerts, dinners, radical labor sponsorship, and community gathering spaces to raise money and visibility for the union. Minor wear; overall very good condition. A strong visual record of UFW solidarity culture and the national reach of Chicano farmworker labor activism.

Item #21012

Price: $485.00