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Migrant grape workers, c. 1970s
Farm workers in locations like California had long experienced poor living conditions, low wages, and bigoted treatment. In the late 1980s, the UFW took steps to boost the status of field workers in the U.S. - both through boycott campaigns (the…
Marchers demonstrate during UFW's renewed Grape Boycott in the 1980s
Chavez and the United Farm Workers solicited the public to participate in a nationwide boycott of grape producers that did not display a union label. The UFW's broad-spectrum social justice agenda enabled it to enlist churches, community…
Rise of Middlebury's New Right
Middlebury students Jim Miller ('81) and Bret Beto ('81) announce the founding of the Young Republicans club on campus. Inspired by the 1980 presidential elections, the two discuss their plans for the club in this article.
Last frontiers?
In the 1980s, explorers and astronauts delved deeper into the natural world's final frontiers - on land and in space. The photographs and documentation that accompanied these ambitious expeditions illustrate two opposing ideas. On the one hand,…
