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Antonio Orendain

Portrait Gallery

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Object Details

Artist

Alan Pogue, born 1946

Sitter

Antonio Orendain, 28 May 1930 - 12 Apr 2016

Exhibition Label

Born Jalisco, Mexico
Antonio Orendain helped extend the reach of the farm workers’ movement nationwide. As a young man, he came to the United States from Mexico in search of a better life. When he tried to support himself by chasing seasonal crops across state lines, he realized the precarious conditions of migrant farm workers, who toiled below the minimum wage for ten-hour days. Discontented, he became a founding member of César Chávez and Dolores Huerta’s National Farm Workers Association in 1962. Then, in the late 1960s, under Chávez’s direction, Orendain organized Mexican American melon field workers in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, where the landowning elite kept them in dire poverty. Eventually, Orendain founded the independent Texas Farm Workers Union (TFWU). In 1977 the TFWU led the March for Human Rights, a 1,500-mile trek from Austin to Washington, D.C., to demand fair wages and collective bargaining rights for Texas farm workers.
Nacido en Jalisco, México
Antonio Orendain ayudó a extender el alcance del movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas a nivel nacional. De joven, Orendain se trasladó de México a los Estados Unidos en busca de una mejor calidad de vida. Cuando intentaba mantenerse trabajando en cultivos estacionales en varios estados, se dio cuenta de las precarias condiciones que soportaban los trabajadores agrícolas migrantes, que trabajaban arduamente durante diez horas al día por un sueldo mínimo. Disgustado, se convirtió en miembro fundador de la Asociación Nacional de Trabajadores Agrícolas César Chávez y Dolores Huerta en 1962. Luego, a finales de los años 60, bajo la dirección de Chávez, Orendain organizó a los trabajadores méxico-estadounidenses de los campos de melones del valle del río Bravo en Texas, donde la élite terrateniente los tenía en la extrema pobreza. Con el tiempo, Orendain fundó la organización independiente Sindicato de Trabajadores Agrícolas de Texas (TFWU, por sus siglas en inglés). En 1977, el TFWU lideró la Marcha por los derechos humanos, una caminata de 1500 millas de largo desde Austin a Washington D.C. con la que demandaban salarios justos y negociación colectiva de derechos para los trabajadores agrícolas de Texas.

Credit Line

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Gilberto Cárdenas Collection of Latino Art

Date

1979

Object number

NPG.2018.61

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Copyright

© Alan Pogue

Type

Photograph

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Image: 26.7 × 17.2 cm (10 1/2 × 6 3/4")
Sheet: 35.6 × 27.8 cm (14 × 10 15/16")

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National Portrait Gallery Collection

Location

Currently not on view

Data Source

National Portrait Gallery

Topic

Costume\Jewelry\Necklace
Costume\Headgear\Hat
Exterior
Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Mustache
Equipment\Drafting & Writing Implements\Writing implement\Pen
Antonio Orendain: Male
Antonio Orendain: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Labor leader
Antonio Orendain: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Activist
Portrait

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4c28974ce-ab3e-4354-815b-be54e4f83ef9

Record ID

npg_NPG.2018.61

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