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Florence Richardson Wyckoff : fifty years of grassroots social activism / interviewed and edited by Randall Jarrell (v.3)

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Call Number	CT275.W93A3 1987 v.3
Title	Florence Richardson Wyckoff : fifty years of grassroots social activism / interviewed and edited by Randall Jarrell (v.3)
Series Title	Agricultural History of Santa Cruz County
Creator	Wyckoff, Florence Richardson, 1905- , narrator Jarrell, Randall, interviewer
Publisher	Santa Cruz : University of California, Santa Cruz, University Library
Date of Publication	1987-1990
Description/Abstract	Florence Wyckoff's three-volume oral history documents her remarkable, lifelong work as a social activist, during which she has become nationally recognized as an advocate of migrant families and children. From the depression years through the 1970s, she pursued grassroots, democratic, community-building efforts in the service of improving public health standards and providing health care, education, and housing for migrant families. Major legislative milestones in her career of advocacy were the passage of the California Migrant Health Act and, in 1962, the Federal Migrant Health Act, which established family health clinics for the families who follow the crops along both the eastern and western migrant agricultural streams. Volume III: Watsonville Years 1960-1985. This volume continues Wyckoff's story of the arduous political struggle for federal and state legislation providing for health services for migrants, the California and Federal Migrant Health Acts. Once this legislation was in place, Wyckoff was involved in a new battle to insure continuing budget appropriations for the migrant health programs. In her narration, Wyckoff provides additional chapters on her fifteen-year tenure on the Governor's Advisory Committee on Children and Youth, including the involvement of the Rosenberg Foundation in funding pioneering migrant public health services in the San Joaquin Valley; the changing living and social conditions of migrant workers during the period 1948-58; and the organizing of farmworker communities through citizen education and political action. Wyckoff also discusses many individuals who were significant in different areas of the struggle--Anthony Rios and the CSO; notable growers, labor contractors, and public-spirited physicians, politicians and congressional staff members. The culmination of her varied work on the Governor's Committee was the organizing of the five Conferences on Families Who Follow the Crops, held in California between 1959 and 1967.
Subject.LCSH	Agriculture Agricultural laborers California -- History Political participation
Language	English
Type	Text
Notes	Photocopy of typescript.
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