| Title: |
Helen Hosmer: A Radical Critic of California Agribusiness in the 1930's
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library. Special Collections and Archives
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| Collection: |
Agricultural History Santa Cruz County
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| Description: |
Helen Hosmer was a writer, activist, and historian of California agribusiness. Her knowledge of California's agriculture dated back to the 1930s when, as a student at the University of California, Berkeley she worked at the Poultry Division, College of Agriculture. Later she worked for the Information Division of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which established camps for migrant workers in California. During this period Hosmer came to know FSA photographer Dorothea Lange, agricultural economist Paul S. Taylor, and many important figures in the labor movement in San Francisco. Because of her conviction that labor organizing was essential among agricultural wokers, Hosmer resigned her government position at Farm Security in 1935 in order to have the freedom to work in behalf of her political beliefs.
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| Extent: |
89 pages
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| URL: |
http://library.ucsc.edu/library/reg-hist/hosmer.pdf
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Speaker: |
Hosmer, Helen, 1904-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
31-Mar-1904
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Philadelphia, PA; Pennsylvania; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Activist; Historian; Writer
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| Document location: |
Summerland, CA
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Interviewer: |
Jarrell, Randall
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| Organizations discussed: |
University of California, Berkeley, CA
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| Locations discussed: |
California; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Agriculture; California; Education; Family--History; North America; Oral history; Political activists; United States; University of California, Berkeley, CA
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0023906-25437
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