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Tag Archives: UFW in West Michigan
Solidarity with Migrant Farm Workers event in Grand Rapids – 1978
Recently, we were able to find some archival documents from the Walter Reuther Library at Wayne State University, documents that are specific to Grand Rapids, particularly the Farm Worker Movement. The image below is taken from a newsletter in April … Continue reading
