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Primary Sources

3 Artifacts
Document A

DBQs:
What do you notice about the jacket?
Who do you think would wear this type of jacket?
Why do you think this jacket is hanging up in the National Museum of American History?
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_694879

Document B

DBQs

What do you notice about this picture?


Why do you think they are telling people to boycott grapes?
What culture do you think the man represents?

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/dolores-huertas-activism-profiled-smithsonian-exhibit-n384691

Document C

DBQs:
What do you think this newspaper writes about?
Who do you think would read this newspaper?
How does this newspaper compare to the newspapers of today?

https://libraries.ucsd.edu/farmworkermovement/ufwarchives/elmalcriado/19
74/No.%2011%20November%2018,%201974.pdf
3 Texts
Document D

DBQs

How do you think Cesar Chavez felt while writing this letter?
What is Cesar Chavez saying in this letter?
Who do you think Mr. Barr is?
https://libraries.ucsd.edu/farmworkermovement/essays/essays/Letter%20From%20Delano.pdf

Document E

DBQs:

Agency: Why do you think a young girl would go on strike for unions despite the risk of
getting arrested?
Progress and decline: How do you think police treatment of people on strike has
changed?
Epistemology: What did the speaker go through?
https://libraries.ucsd.edu/farmworkermovement/essays/essays/Helen%20Serda%20Essay
%20Final.pdf

Document F
DBQs

Who is Kennedy speaking to?


Why is Kennedy convinced making this speech?
How do you think politicians feel about Spanish speaking Americans?

Robert F. Kennedy Statement on Cesar Chavez

3 images
Document G

DBQs
What do you think the people are doing in this picture?
Why do you think Robert F. Kennedy is sitting with the United Farm Workers?
How do you think the people feel having Robert F. Kennedy there with them?
http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-03-2011/cesar-chavez-photo-gallery.html

Document H

DBQs:
What kind of laws do the workers and speaker want the Governor to pass?
How do you think the Governor would respond to these speeches?
How do these speeches, strikes, and call for action compare to todays protests?
https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/185999

Documents I

DBQs:
When was this photo taken?
What are these people doing? How do you know that?
Why did the photographer document this moment?
http://moralheroes.org/dolores-huerta

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