Virgen de Guadalupe Banner

Cover of El Malcriado March 3rd 1966 with photo of farm workers walking pilgrimage from Delano to Sacramento with a banner of the Virgen de Guadalupe and the UFW logo

Cover of El Malcriado March 3rd, 1966 with a photo of farm workers walking pilgrimage from Delano to Sacramento with a banner of the Virgen de Guadalupe and the UFW logo

Overview

The Virgen de Guadalupe processional banner led the crowd at key moments in Mexican history, including Miguel Hidalgo's insurgent revolt for independence from Spain and Emiliano Zapata's peasant army fighting for tierra y libertad during the Mexican Revolution.

The UFW walked with this Virgen de Guadalupe banner in their 1966 pilgrimage from Delano to Sacramento which drew national attention to the plight of farm workers.

Questions

  • How might the pilgrimage ritual and the use of a processional banner build solidarity among farm workers?
  • What are UFW members conveying to the broader community and nation with their use of this banner?

Banner of with the Virgen de Guadalupe above the UFW logo and the letters NFWA (UFW predecessor the National Farm Workers Association)

El Malcriado. English edition. 3 Mar. 1966. El Malcriado Archives Links to an external site.. Farmworker Movement Documentation Project, UCSD.

NFWA Virgen de Guadalupe Banner.  Labor Archives Research Center, San Francisco State University.