Cookbook for Protestors, 1970s
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Object Details
- Description
- Salad for Boycotters features recipes for lettuce-free salads. This booklet with image of salad bowl with the United Farm Workers eagle was produced to support the boycott of non–union iceberg lettuce. Inside, suggestions include what other types of lettuce and greens to use in meal preparations, nutritional information, how to grow organic, foraging info, and wage info. This booklet was prepared in cooperation between the United Methodist Church in Kansas City, Missouri and the U.F.W.
- The United Farm Workers lobbied to raise wages, improve working conditions, and compensation after some fields became mechanized. Through well publicized strikes and boycotts the U.F.W. helped change the face of agriculture labor unions, change consumers thinking, and increase moral awareness.
- ca 1971
- ID Number
- 2012.0036.02
- catalog number
- 2012.0036.02
- accession number
- 2012.0036
- Object Name
- booklet
- pamphlet
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 1/2 in x 7 in; 21.59 cm x 17.78 cm
- place made
- United States: Missouri, Kansas City
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Food
- FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000
- Exhibition
- Food: Transforming the American Table
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Food Culture
- Food Processing
- Labor Unions
- labor issues
- Latino
- Record ID
- nmah_1422157
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-9dd9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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