Latinos/Hispanics in Colorado Collection; image no. Wilzoch 1.
Date
[1975]
Summary
Social activists pose at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Food Cooperative in Denver, Colorado. They are identified left to right: Jeannie Rizza (boycott organizer from New York), William Watts (UFW staff member), unidentified youth, Yolanda Ortega (student activist, founding member of Su Teatro) and Mike Wilzoch (UFW staff member).
Description
1 slide : color.
Is Part Of
Latinos/Hispanics in Colorado Collection.;
Item Owned By
Auraria Library
Type of Material
Color slides.; Slides--Color.; Group portraits.; Imaged.; Image
Subject
United Farm Workers of America--People--1970-1980.; Hispanic Americans--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Activists.; Rizza, Jeannie--Pictorial works.; Watts, William--Pictorial works.; Ortega, Yolanda--Pictorial works.; Wilzoch, Mike--Pictorial works.; United Farm Workers of America--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Human rights workers--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Denver (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
Format-Medium
Photograph
Source
Source: loan, Wilzoch, Mike, 2010.
Rights Contact Information
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
Content derived from inventory prepared by Dana EchoHawk.; Title from inventory.; From inventory: "Our Lady of Guadalupe Food Cooperative (OLOG) was the center for much of Denver's social justice activity beginning with the arrival of Father Jose Lara as pastor in the late 1960s. The farm workers who arrived in Denver from California to organize the first grape boycott were Alfredo and Juanita Herrera who founded their base of support with Father Lara and the Church. Shown in photo left to right: Jeannie Rizza (boycott organizer from New York), William Watts (UFW staffer in 1975-1976), unidentified youth, Yolanda Ortega (student activist, founding member of Su Teatro), Mike Wilzoch (UFW staffer from 1973-1976). (Source Mike Wilzoch)"; Digitization sponsored by the Library Services and Technology Act and the Center for Colorado & the West at Auraria Library.
