Cookbook for Protestors, 1970s
date: label: date made
content: ca 1971
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, Kansas City
topic: label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Food Processing
label: Subject
content: Labor Unions
label: Subject
content: labor issues
label: Subject
content: Latino
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000
label: Exhibition
content: Food: Transforming the American Table
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0036.02
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0036.02
label: accession number
content: 2012.0036
objectType: label: Object Name
content: booklet
label: Object Name
content: pamphlet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 7 in; 21.59 cm x 17.78 cm