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Valley Migrant League

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Stella Maris House collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1585
Abstract The collection consists of printed material, correspondence, and administrative, financial, and legal records created and collected by the Stella Maris House, a Portland, Oregon-based social justice group, during the course of its work. The collection demonstrates the local evolution of issues key to the history of the United States during the 1960s. Over a third of the collection is dedicated to Oregon's migrant labor rights movement; it also features materials documenting the area's civil...
Dates: 1940-1973; Majority of material found within 1960-1972

Valley Migrant League photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 74
Abstract

Collection consists of photographs taken primarily by staff of the Valley Migrant League for their program newspaper, "Opportunity News." Subjects depicted include VML-sponsored adult education and child care programs, working and living conditions for agricultural migrant laborers, labor organizing activities, and community events.

Dates: 1965-1968

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Adult education -- Oregon 1
African Americans 1
Agriculture 1
Albina (Portland, Or.) -- History -- 20th century 1
Children of migrant laborers -- Oregon -- Photographs 1