Biography
Cipriano Montoya was a Mine-Mill Local 890 member jailed for 90 days for honoring the picket line during the Empire Zinc strike at Bayard, New Mexico. The strike and its mass arrests became the basis of the blacklisted film Salt of the Earth.
Photo: Chicano Research Collection, Hayden Library; Bayard, New Mexico, 1951; via Barriozona. Original-image crop; identified by the source (fifth from left). Source: https://barriozona.com/the-union-community-organizing-and-civil-liberties-clinton-jencks-salt-of-the-earth-and-arizona-copper/ . Copyright status unconfirmed; used for educational biographical identification at the site owner's direction. No permission or open license claimed.
