Power from the Past

Memory Work Research Initiative

Housekeepers’ Quilt

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Workers stand closely together holding up an orange and yellow quilt. A brown-skinned woman in the foreground looks off into the distance. She is wearing a maid's uniform with a name tag and a UNITE-HERE button.

Union housekeepers in march along Century Blvd. in Los Angeles with a 60 foot long quilt. Each square documents a workers’ on-the-job injury. More Images from Local 11 in the UNITE HERE records (Collection 2325), UCLA Library Special Collections.