Jon Lewis Photographs of the California Grape Strike |
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| Author:
| Street, Richard Steven |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8032-3048-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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In the winter of 1966, twenty-eight-year-old ex-marine Jon Lewis visited Delano, California, the centre of the California grape strike. He stayed for two years, becoming the United Farm Workers Union's semiofficial photographer. Richard Steven Street rescues Lewis from obscurity, allowing us for the first time to see a pivotal moment in civil rights history through the lens of a passionate photographer.
In the winter of 1966, twenty-eight-year-old ex-marine Jon Lewis visited Delano, California, the centre of the California grape strike. He stayed for two years, becoming the United Farm Workers Union's semiofficial photographer. Richard Steven Street rescues Lewis from obscurity, allowing us for the first time to see a pivotal moment in civil rights history through the lens of a passionate photographer.