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Introduction       Who       How       LULAC       Farmers' Holiday       Cow War       NFO Holding Actions



 




Archival Materials

Charles Walters Papers, MS 588, Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives. http://findingaids.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS588.html.

Edward E. Kennedy Papers, MS 458, Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives. http://findingaids.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS458.html.

Farmers' Holiday Movement Collection, MS 461, Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives. http://findingaids.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS461.html.

F. Gale McClean Papers, RS 21/7/213, Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives. http://findingaids.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/arch/rgrp/21-7-213.html.

George J. Ormsby Papers, MS 109, Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives. http://findingaids.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS109.html.

Iowa Farmers Union Records, MS 92, Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives. http://archives.lib.iastate.edu/sites/default/files/documents/finding-aids-MS/MS092.pdf.

Irene and José Guzman papers, Iowa Women’s Archives, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City. http://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/4/resources/2551

LULAC Council 10 records, Iowa Women’s Archives, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City. http://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/4/resources/2389

Mary Terronez papers, Iowa Women’s Archives, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City. http://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/4/resources/2370

Merle Hansen Papers, MS 595, Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives. http://findingaids.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS595.html.

National Farmers Organization Records, MS 481, Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives. http://findingaids.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS481.html.

National Farmers Process Tax Recovery Association Records, MS 44, Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives. http://findingaids.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS044.html.

National Farmers Union and National Council of Farmers Cooperatives Collection, MS 444, Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives. http://findingaids.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS444.html.

Sam J. Nelson Collection of United Farmers of Story County (Iowa) Records, MS 204, Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives. http://findingaids.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS204.html.



General Resources

Blomme, Robert. “‘The Iowa Cow War’ Revisited.” Iowa State Veterinarian 51, no. 1 (1989): 15–18. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastate_veterinarian/vol51/iss1/5.

Devine, Jenny Barker. On Behalf of the Family Farm Iowa Farm Women's Activism since 1945. 1st ed. Iowa and the Midwest Experience. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2013.

Iowa State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. "¿A donde vamos ahora? (Where are We Going Now?)," September 1970. http://publications.iowa.gov/11638/1/Where_are_we_going_now.pdf

Iowa Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. “¿Qué Lejos Hemos Venida? (How Far Have We Come?): Migrant Farm Labor in Iowa, 1975.” Washington, D.C.: U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1976. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000507898.

Iowa Women’s Archives. “Migration Is Beautiful,” 2016. http://migration.lib.uiowa.edu/.

John T. Schlebecker, “The Great Holding Action: The NFO in September, 1962,” Agricultural History 39, no. 4 (1965): 204–13.

Lauck, John. American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980 (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2000).

Mills, George. One-armed Bandits: And Other Stories of Iowa's past and Present. Ames, Iowa: Focus Books, in Cooperation with Mid-Prairie Books, 1997.

Rowell, Willis. Mad as Hell (Corning, Iowa: Gauthier Pub. Co., 1984).

Rothstein, Morton. “Farmer Movements and Organizations: Numbers, Gains, Losses,” Agricultural History 62, no. 3 (1988): 161–81.

Schutz, Mary Neal, and Martin Almanza. Plowing up a Storm: The History of Midwestern Farm Activism. [Lincoln, Neb.]: Nebraska Educational Television Network, 1985.

Shideler, James H., ed. Agricultural activism special issue, Agricultural History 39, no. 4 (1965).

Stock, Catherine McNicol. Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017.

Taylor, Leslie A. "Femininity as Strategy: a Gendered Perspective on the Farmers' Holiday." The Annals of Iowa 51 (1992), 252-277. Available at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/vol51/iss3/3

Weaver, Janet. "Farm Barrio to '¡Boicoteo!': The Emergence of Mexican American Activism in Davenport, 1917-1970." The Annals of Iowa 8, no. 3 (2009): 215-254. http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1068&context=lib_pubs