Dr. Priscilla Falcon Book Signing - Sponsored by the Colorado Chicano Movement Archives
April 24, 2024
11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
LINCx - LARC 2nd Floor
Tom Sommer
http://https://www.csupueblo.edu/archives-and-special-collections/colorado-chicano-movement.html
719-549-2475
thomas.sommer@csupueblo.edu
Dr. Priscilla Falcon, professor emeritus of the University of Northern Colorado, has published a book, "Strike: National Florist workers vs Kitayama," published by Vanishing Horizons, the story of Guadalupe “Lupe" Briseno, who in 1968-69, with other women led a strike against the Brighton-based carnation greenhouse for better wages and working conditions. Dr. Falcon has interviewed Guadalupe about this strike who was supported by the University of Colorado and Iliff School of Theology students and multiple religious and human rights organizations
