Group of protesters in Center, CO
LHP_Intern2019-09-25T02:59:15+00:00Group of protesters in Center, CO
United Farm Workers of America members and supporters hold a rally for the lettuce workers who are on strike
LHP_Intern2019-10-11T04:06:34+00:00Striking against the Finerman Company in Center, CO., 1970
Hermanos del Concilio #19, Alamosa, Colorado
LHP_Intern2019-09-25T03:00:00+00:00Hermanos del Concilio #19, Alamosa, Colorado
Bust portrait of Celedonio Mondragon
LHP_Intern2019-09-25T03:01:28+00:00founder of la Sociedad Protección Mutua de Trabajadores Unidos. Original portrait located in the SPMTU hall in Antonito, CO
Sociedad Protección Mutua de Trabajadores Unidos, Pamphlet Cover
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T04:48:36+00:00View of the cover of a pamphlet for SPMDTU. The society was organized in 1900 in Antonito, CO by Hispanic Americans as a means to fight back against racial and discriminatory practices in the San Luis Valley
Sociedad Protección Mutua de Trabajadores Unidos, original building
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T04:46:54+00:00This building (still in use), was built in Antonito, Costilla County, in 1900 at the founding of the organization. It now houses the central Concilio for the SPMDTU
SPMDTU building in Chama
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T04:44:48+00:00Juan Olivas near the La Sociedad Protección Mutua de Trabajadores Unidos, Concilio #2 hall in Chama (Costilla County), probably built in first half of 20th century
Sociedad Protección Mutua de Trabajadores Unidos
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T04:43:47+00:00Hispanic American men pose at a meeting of the SPMDTU in their building in Antonito, CO. 1935(?)
Current Website of the SPMDTU: http://www.spmdtu.org/who-we-are/la-historia/
Road crew, Costilla County
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T04:41:59+00:00Hispanic American men employed on a WPA road project pose near a tractor and a road grader on a dirt road probably in Costilla County, 1935
Lettuce Strike, Center, CO
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T04:40:34+00:00A member of the United Farm Workers of America stands beside his wife and holds his baby during a lettuce workers’ strike in Center, CO, 1970
Striking Lettuce Workers
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T04:39:06+00:00Striking workers pray near a Mobil gas station during the Finerman lettuce strike in Center (Saguache County), 1970
Leroy “Korn” Maes
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T04:37:20+00:00Leader of the United Farm Workers of America during strike against the Finerman Lettuce company in Center, 1970